You and A.I.
FUTURE, NONFICTIONWe are finally coming face to face with the intelligent robots we’ve always imagined. What will that mean for humans?
You’re An @sshole: Being “Right” in the Digital Age
FUTURE, NONFICTIONWith the Digital Age came computers. With computers came the internet. With internet came your post, their post, funny post, mean post, political post…
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Will Humans Go Extinct?
FUTURE, NONFICTIONAsteroids, climate change, nuclear holocaust, disease, politics… These are certainly the End Times. But how likely is it that humans will go the way of the dinosaur?
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Those Jobs Are Gone, and They’re Not Coming Back
FUTURE, NONFICTIONOld economy jobs are disappearing. Politicians, as hard as they might try, can’t bring back jobs that don’t exist anymore.
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Ageism, Part One: What’s the Point of Living if No One Wants to F*ck You?
NONFICTIONAgeism is a problem, but is not addressed in the same manner as other forms of discrimination. Let’s talk about growing old in America.
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Ageism, Part Two: The Definition of Aging
NONFICTIONWhat exactly is “old?” People share what growing old means to them in the latest segment of the Berlin Geist Literatur series on aging.
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Real Websites, Fake News
FUTURE, NONFICTIONFake news has existed from the earliest days of journalism, long before Bat Boy became Hillary Clinton’s alien baby. In 1835,
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Ageism, Part Three: An Old Man’s Story
FICTIONOne old man tells a story of life lived; the poetry of a world we were all forced to inherit, and that we will all be forced to someday give up as well.
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A Midwest Girl
FICTION, FUTURENothing stays the same and the world will always keep moving forward, as one girl learns from her father in this story of small-town Minnesota.
A Festering Past
FUTURE, NONFICTIONGermany has addressed its past in ways most countries, especially the United States, have not: A sort of national psychoanalysis to keep something like the Third Reich from ever happening again.
Ageism, Part Four: Eldercare
NONFICTIONThis companion piece to “Ageism in America” takes a look at the innovators who will change the way we age, and the limitations of aging.
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Sad Dog: Heartbreak in Rural Minnesota
FICTION, FUTUREThat girl Lily left in June and… there’s not much difference between a dog and a man when they’re down and out like that.
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The Seasons
FICTION, FUTUREMy memories are made of brick and cement and glass. My dreams are bathed in the waning sunlight of an autumn day. Long shadows creep over fences and pull at the sidewalk as the sun begins to set. My dreams are apples picked from trees and flat piano notes from songs I never learned how to play.
Desperate for Something New
FOOD WRITINGGoing out to a restaurant is not only about the food: It’s a unique culinary experience.
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Now India (7 Minutes to Sunrise)
NONFICTION, TRAVELThe first sounds of the morning are of tuk-tuk and taxi engines as they come to life, their honking horns alongside the footsteps of the city’s informal working class taking to the streets. And, even earlier than that, the song and chant of Hindu morning prayer, and the feral dogs that slink to the shadows to sleep, no longer dominant as the sun begins its climb from behind Agra, India’s low hills.
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