Screen by Jessica Helfand — She Saw the Wreckage Before the Crash
Twenty-three essays. Two hundred pages. Published in 2001, when most people were still calling the…
God and Golem, Inc. by Norbert Wiener — When the Father of Cybernetics Warned Us About Playing God
Norbert Wiener’s 1964 God and Golem, Inc. warned us about machines that learn, reproduce, and create. Sixty years later, the warning reads like a prophecy we ignored.
Technopoly by Neil Postman — The Prophet Nobody Wanted to Hear
Neil Postman wrote Technopoly in 1992. I want you to hold that date in your…
