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.
America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience
The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.
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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.
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Getty; The Atlantic Whistleblowing Is Broken
Like so much else, the act of informing on bad actors for good reasons has become tainted.
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Katie Martin The End of Manual Transmission
Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty; The Atlantic Everything About Twitter v. Musk Is Utter Nonsense
This dispute is where all sanity and logic go to die.
