Fifty years ago, a military coup violently ended Chile’s political experiment with socialism, and with it the nation’s technological experiment with cybernetic management.
Eden Medina | Sep 11, 2023
The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.
Chris Salter | May 17, 2023
Despite the dangers, secret communication is at the heart of espionage operations and essential for spy work.
Kristie Macrakis | Apr 20, 2023
An excerpt from the celebrated 19th-century photographer's memoir "When I Was a Photographer."
Félix Nadar | Feb 6, 2023
To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
Peter Norton | Jul 25, 2022
A deep history of mass manipulation, from the 1920s through the mid-1970s.
Robert Gehl and Sean Lawson | Jun 29, 2022
For over a century, buttons have conjured fears of all-or-nothing actions that could spiral out of control.
Rachel Plotnick | Jun 16, 2022
In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of very unusual broadcasts.
Wladimir Velminski | Translated by Erik Butler | Mar 4, 2022
The story of teaching machines is deeply intertwined with Skinner’s psycho-technologies, which laid a foundation from which education technology has never entirely broken.
Audrey Watters | Sep 3, 2021
