Ian Bogost
He is the director of the film- and media-studies program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also a computer-science and engineering professor. Bogost is the author of 10 books, most recently Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. Bogost is also an award-winning game designer whose work has been played by millions of people and has been held in collections internationally, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Illustration by Erik Carter / The Atlantic The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin
There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The End of Recommendation Letters
Professors, like their students, use ChatGPT to get out of doing their assignments.
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Getty We Settled for Catan
Klaus Teuber’s creation captured hearts, and wallets, because everyone could tolerate it.
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: … Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless
Twitter verification was first a tool for vanity.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Rasit Aydogan / … Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?
GPT-4’s mastery of the SAT will re-entrench the power and influence of rote exams.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty We Programmed ChatGPT Into This Article. It’s Weird.
Please don’t embarrass us, robots.
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Peter Garritano / The Atlantic America Built an Actually Good Airport
LaGuardia is reborn, and it has a message for the nation.
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The Atlantic Netflix Crossed a Line
The intangibles you didn’t even realize you had come to expect are disappearing.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic ChatGPT Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone
Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; HBO; Naughty Dog … Television Is Better Without Video Games
HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us offers a definitive case for games’ narrative impoverishment.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Generative Art Is Stupid
And that’s how it should be.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The Internet Is Kmart Now
Something becomes entrenched. Then it fades away.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think
Treat it like a toy, not a tool.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Madness of Twitter
People just can’t stop tweeting about all the tweets they see.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now
But at least you have something to talk about.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance
The universe doesn’t care about you.
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Getty; The Atlantic You Must Respect Candy Corn
Even in paradise, death lurks.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Your Smart Thermostat Isn’t Here to Help You
But that doesn’t mean it’s useless.
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The Atlantic The E-bike Is a Monstrosity
Neither bicycle nor motorbike, the two-wheeler’s future demands an identity of its own.
