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Technology, media, institutions and collective psychology — the shape of the present as it turns into the future.
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Artificial intelligence, algorithms, media, social behavior, institutions and possible futures.
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Are internet memes changing how we think, or merely changing what we see and share? A fifteen-stage investigation into humor, political communication, viral information, social identity, algorithms, and the uncertain relationship between online expression and human reasoning.
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Artificial intelligence may look like software, but beneath it is an expanding physical system of chips, data centers, electricity, capital, networks, institutions, and increasingly autonomous machines. This investigation asks who is building that infrastructure, where technological power is concentrating, how broadly AI's capabilities may spread, and what could become scarce—and valuable—if intelligence itself becomes abundant.
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An investigation into the feedback loop between human behavior and recommendation algorithms—and how personalized systems may influence attention, relationships, opportunity, culture, and the paths our lives take.
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