The Atlantic Summaries and Reviews
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Lessons from 19 Years in the Metaverse
A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities
The Atlantic, 2022
The Parenting Prophecy
The way someone was raised often shows up in the way they raise their own kids — for better or worse.
The Atlantic, 2023
Why I Hope to Die at 75
An argument that society and families – and you – will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
The Atlantic, 2014
The biggest problem with remote work
Companies need a new kind of middle manager: The synchronizer.
The Atlantic, 2022
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Food War
The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
The Atlantic, 2021
The Internet Is Rotting
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
The Atlantic, 2021
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
If public-opinion data are unreliable, we’re all flying blind.
The Atlantic, 2020
Why Every City Feels the Same Now
Glass-and-steel monoliths replaced local architecture. It’s not too late to go back.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control – and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Supply of Disinformation Soon Will Be Infinite
Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.
The Atlantic, 2020
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
The Atlantic, 2020
The System That Actually Worked
How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it
The Atlantic, 2020
Capitalism’s Addiction Problem
The biggest, best-known companies in the digital economy are getting their users hooked on their products — and undermining the pillars of America’s market economy.
The Atlantic, 2020
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
The Atlantic, 2020
Turning Piglets Into Personalized Avatars for Sick Kids
A team of scientists wants to accelerate research into a genetic disorder by using CRISPR to copy unique mutations from affected children into pigs.
The Atlantic, 2017
