The Post-Individual
How the internet has changed what it means to be an individual, and how society has changed in a result| Yancey Strickler
I recently read Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson, an exquisite historical science-fiction novel about the Italian scientist’s life. A central highlight is a story Galileo wrote in 1623 in his book The Assayer (one of the original diss tracks) that’s unlike anything he wrote before or| Yancey Strickler
How the internet has changed what it means to be an individual, and how society has changed in a result| Yancey Strickler
In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems like we’re the only ones here. After all, if other forms of life| Yancey Strickler
