You and A.I.
We are finally coming face to face with the intelligent robots we’ve always imagined. What will that mean for humans?
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
You’re An @sshole: Being “Right” in the Digital Age
With the Digital Age came computers. With computers came the internet. With internet came your post, their post, funny post, mean post, political post…
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
Will Humans Go Extinct?
Asteroids, 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?
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
Those Jobs Are Gone, and They’re Not Coming Back
Old economy jobs are disappearing. Politicians, as hard as they might try, can’t bring back jobs that don’t exist anymore.
NONFICTION
Ageism, Part One: What’s the Point of Living if No One Wants to F*ck You?
Ageism is a problem, but is not addressed in the same manner as other forms of discrimination. Let’s talk about growing old in America.
NONFICTION
Ageism, Part Two: The Definition of Aging
What exactly is “old?” People share what growing old means to them in the latest segment of the Berlin Geist Literatur series on aging.
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
Real Websites, Fake News
Fake news has existed from the earliest days of journalism, long before Bat Boy became Hillary Clinton’s alien baby. In 1835, Richard A. Locke published a series of six fake articles about the discovery of life on the moon, now known as the Great Moon Hoax, in The Sun newspaper. Sales of The Sun went through the roof.
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Ageism, Part Three: An Old Man’s Story
One 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.
FICTION, ISSUE 2
A Midwest Girl
Nothing 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.
ISSUE 2, NONFICTION
A Festering Past
Germany 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.