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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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.
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Courtesy of Robin Sloan Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
Why the orange sky looks gray
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Getty / The Atlantic For Whom the Tok Tiks
TikTok could persist in many ways in America. None is good.
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Reuters / The Atlantic The Tech Companies Already Won
Antitrust could break up the big players. It wouldn’t change everyday life.
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The Atlantic So Much for the Decentralized Internet
A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should.
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Nina Berman/Noor A Bomb in the Desert
Seventy-five years ago, America set off the world’s first nuclear explosion.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic College Leaders Have the Wrong Incentives
If we want university presidents to safeguard the well-being of their communities, we need to change the way they’re evaluated.
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Celina Pereira Revenge of the Suburbs
Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.
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The Atlantic The Silence of the Never Facebookers
Even fed-up tech workers are paralyzed by Silicon Valley’s culture.
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How Facebook Works for Trump
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
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John Dominis / Getty The Supermarket After the Pandemic
The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better.
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Nintendo / Vectorpocket / rangizzz / Shutterstock / … The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
In the midst of a pandemic, it’s delightful to imagine doing whatever you like without worrying about making a living.
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Alex Halada / Getty When the Checkpoints Come
How will Americans react when restrictions on their movements are no longer voluntary?
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Vahram Muradyan Now Is the Time to Overreact
If the measures we're taking to fight the coronavirus work, they'll look excessive later on. But the alternative is worse.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic You Already Live in Quarantine
Being holed up at home has never been more pleasant.
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Mike Hill / Getty / thispersondoesnotexist / Katie … It Doesn’t Matter If Anyone Exists or Not
What a website that generates infinite fake humans tells us about modern life
