Sorry to burst your filter bubble,
but tech didn’t break democracy, better algorithms won’t save us, and sometimes it’s good to feed the trolls.

DEAR BIRTH MOTHER
As adoption migrates to Facebook, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.
by Samantha M. Shapiro

THE HYPERREAL LIFE
While China’s sci-fi authors are elevated to the status of New Age prophets, Chen Qiufan’s career—like his genre’s place in society—has gone through the looking glass.
by Yi-Ling Liu

THE MYSTERY OF “MOSTLY HARMLESS” - The hiker’s body was discovered in a tent, his identity unknown. The internet started looking for clues—what they found was unexpected.

THE LION, THE POLYGAMIST, AND THE BIOFUEL SCAM - How a member of a religious sect teamed up with a tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Wén Rui Incident.

A Conversation With the Authors.

WHO GETS THE FIRST SHOT
Researchers may have a fix for Covid-19 vaccine shortages: Target the social butterflies.
by Christopher Cox

PRESCRIPTION FOR DISASTER
The story of hydroxychloroquine, a twisted tale pitting power against knowledge.
by Adam Rogers

“In 10 or 15 years, we will have prepared the entire western slope of the Sierra Nevada to ignite in the greatest firestorm ever seen by human beings.”

LONE STAR - How one Texas county clerk set off the weirdest, most promising revolution in American voting technology since the 1800s.

THE MASTER’S TOOLS - Donald Trump’s brilliant use of Facebook was key to his 2016 victory. Now a group of former company staffers is trying to turn his playbook against him.

SAN FRANCISCO’S IMMUNE SYSTEM
Why did a city beset by dysfunction and inequality face the onset of Covid-19 better than any other major American metropolis? Because history gave it some very powerful and specific societal antibodies.
by Daniel Duane

BRUTAL HONESTY, UNCHECKED SOBBING
Scenes from a “selfbreakthrough” seminar in China.
by Yiren Lu

This is Nathan Wolfe.
We should have listened to him.

GAME/NOT A GAME
Trolls, hackers, and a real pandemic plague the sequel to a videogame about a pandemic.
by Darryn King

GLOBAL INDEMNITY
An ingenious insurance plan could have helped save the economy. So why are we in this mess?
by Evan Ratliff

27 DAYS IN TOKYO BAY
The Diamond Princess captivated the world as it docked in Yokohama, harboring the new coronavirus —and 3,711 people, who became reluctant subjects in a life-anddeath quarantine experiment.
by Lauren Smiley

THE FIVE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN A.I.
Machines are learning faster by the moment. How are humans supposed to keep up?

THE INFLUENCER
India, the world’s largest democracy, is now the world’s largest experiment in social-media-fueled terror. Inside the rise of a Hindu vigilante in the age of WhatsApp and Modi.
by Mohammad Ali

WHAT HAPPENED TO LEE?
A genius coder lost himself. For a long time, no one knew why.
by Sandra Upson

We have one Earth—and the technology to save it. Go!

SQUEEZING THE ECSTASY OUT OF MUSIC
BY VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE FUTURE OF WORK
BY CLIVE THOMPSON

THE LAST BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET
BY RICHARD COOKE

Build What You Want
Why the Queen of Sh*tty Robots Simone Giertz renounced her crown.

The Pride And Prejudice Of Modern Fan Culture.

Startups Need To Plan For Downfalls.

Turning An F-16 Into A Drone.

Micro-Tasks Are The Future Of Work and more...

In Defense Of Ugly And Obvious Security Cameras.

Wired 25: Make Progress, Make Mistakes, Learn Lesson (Repeat).

Is There Space Left For Apple's Streaming Service? and more...

The On Demand Economy Brings Us Nature.

Gearhead: Lyft-Driver Essentials.

Amtrak's Next High-Speed Train and more...

Three Years of Misery Inside Silicon Valley's Happiest Company.

Need In Charge - How fans are remaking entertainment in their own image and more...

Mission Out Of Control: The Inside Story Of Apollo 11.

The Fight To Take Down Backpage.

Tech's Latest Fitness Craze: Recovery and more...

Fetish: Q Acoustics' Concept 300 Speakers.

The Kids Are Alright: Inside The Hybrid Digital - Analog Lives Of Children and more...

Breaking Phone Addiction, Via The Phone By Virginia Heffernan.

The Tyranny Of Trending Algorithms By Zeynep Tufekci and more...

Removing the friction from a system is an aesthetic joy.

Crispr Research Is Booming. Are We Ready?

When Juries Grapple With Science and more...

Alexa, I Want Answers - How voice computing will fundamentally transform our relationship with information.

Welcome to Mirrorworld - The next all-powerful tech platform will be as big as the planet-merging our physical reality with the digital universe and more...

Make Globalism Great Again - Trump-style nationalism could-perversely-spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven - Terrestrial tracings of the cosmic machine and more...

Scientists are racing to understand Antarctica's vast and fragile Thwaites glacier - before it's too late.

Here You Are, Holding In Your Hand - A Piece Of Some Planet and more...

The Human in the Machine - AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li reboots the field she helped invent.

The Miseducation of AI - How to teach a neural network some common sense.

The Man Who Explained Everything - Karl Friston’s unified theory of schizophrenia, the universe, and AI.

Divided We Fail - An AI cold war between the US and China could doom us all.

The Asset - How the US used a Chinese spy to stop the most audacious economic espionage campaign ever—and how Beijing hit back.

End Game - It was just another instance of swatting, online gaming’s favorite form of revenge. Until it all went horribly awry.

Fight The Dour - The revolution is just getting started. And there's more reason than ever to embrace militant optimism.

The Great Upwelling - As the world became connected, regular people acquired superpowers. Call it the rise of the bottom and more...

The Code That Crashed the World - The untold story of the most devastating cyber attack in history.

Every Second Counts - A startup uses tech to save innocent lives amid the horror of Syria's civil war and more...

Looks great, tastes fine-and might just save the planet.

An Epic Treasure Hunt Turns Deadly.

Do the Politics of Silicon Valley Make Any Sense? and more...

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