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AI, Humanics, Paradox: Towards Being Human in the Tech Workplace

AI, Humanics, Paradox: Towards Being Human in the Tech Workplace

If the future of work is interaction with intelligent machine counterparts, workers’ cognitive and emotional experiences will undergo a seismic shift.

Silent Film Speaks Up: This Newly Restored Chaplin Comedies Elicit New Laughs

Silent Film Speaks Up: This Newly Restored Chaplin Comedies Elicit New Laughs

Flicker Alley’s recent release of 15 newly restored comedies from Chaplin’s time at Essanay Studios is another priceless intervention in the decay of Hollywood history.
The Future of Work Looks Like an Agency-Free Hole That Goes Nowhere

The Future of Work Looks Like an Agency-Free Hole That Goes Nowhere

A recent Planet Money episode about worker analytics provokes two things: a memory of a troubling past, and troubling vision of the future of work.