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?
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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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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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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.
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.