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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Hans Gutknecht / Los Angeles Daily News / … Feeling Herd
What I learned from a steer named Chico
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘Netwar’ Could Be Even Worse Than Cyberwar
A risk first described almost 30 years ago is now mature.
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Irene Suosalo The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit.
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The Atlantic I Figured Out Wordle’s Secret
It took me four guesses.
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The Atlantic The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email
A revolution against Big Tech may never come. Could a series of smaller interventions take its place?
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Getty; The Atlantic I’m Starting to Give Up on Post-pandemic Life
Despair is not a mild symptom.
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Lambert/Getty ; Adam Maida / The Atlantic A Tiny Outrage Machine, Sucking the Exhaust From a Giant One
You can’t even fight a social network without a social network.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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Ali Kahfi / Getty; Corbis / Getty; The … The Metaverse Is Bad
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.
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The Atlantic A Day Without Facebook
The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing.
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Getty / The Atlantic Ebooks Are an Abomination
If you hate them, it’s not your fault.
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Getty ; The Atlantic What Are Stores Even Thinking With All These Emails?
Your inbox is now a shopping mall.
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ClassicStock / Getty The Greenest Way to Grill
The type of fuel you choose isn’t as important as how sustainably it’s sourced, and what you’re grilling matters more.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Why Are Ketchup Bottles So Hard to Use?
Why your cookout favorites are the way they are. Plus: some safety rules for vaccinated summer travels.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty No One Actually Knows If You’re Vaccinated
America has always been on the vaccine honor system.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic What on Earth Is Amazon Doing?
The company’s social-media aggression is shocking. It shouldn’t be.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why People Keep Asking Which Vaccine You Got
Vaccine small talk has given America something to chat about again.
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Getty / The Atlantic You’re Thinking About Home Heating Wrong
Getting a heat pump is one of the easiest ways for homeowners to fight climate change.
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COVID-19 memorial designs by Refik Anadol Studio, Rael … How Will the Future Remember COVID-19?
Three visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial
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Getty / The Atlantic Welcome to Election Purgatory
Time has stopped. Just keep scrolling.
