We are a highly visual species, us humans. This renders us both incredibly creative and amazingly malleable all at once. We use technology to tell stories through many means, but none is more pervasive and powerful than the visual/video realm. The next stages will be more virtual and increasingly augmented — but for now, we’ve got some of the older-school artifacts that still pass as “eye candy” for your mind…
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Reports and Features
“Mostly Human” || CNNgo (series)
“My Brain on Information Overload” || WNYC
“Social Media’s Dark Side” || Big Think
“Black Mirror Explained” || Screen Prism
“What Humans Will Look Like in 1000 Years” || Tech Insider
“What Is Technological Determinism?” || World Science Festival
“Humans Need Not Apply” || CGP Grey
“Children of the Future” || Marshall McLuhan (1966)
“What if Technology Were Designed for Human Values?” || TWS
“The Ethics and Tricks of Technology” || Rubin Report
“Digital Citizenship” || Ch. 61
“Someday…” || The Minimalists
“How Many People Can’t Walk w/out Their Smartphone?” || WNYC
“Digital Detox: Can Teens Cope w/out Their Phones?” || Channel 4
“Life Without a Smartphone” || Izzy Inkpen
“I Gave Up My Phone for a Month” || Luke Korns
Images || Gallery
(For even more pix, check out our evolving feed on Instagram…)
Movies and Films
“The Last Job on Earth” || The Guardian
“World of Tomorrow” || Vimeo (trailer)
“The World in 2050” || BBC
“7 Days of Artificial Intelligence” || Pierre Rocket
“True Skin” || H1
“PRISM” || Jackson Miller
“The Nostalgist” || WIRED
“Metropolis” (1927) || Fritz Lang
“Brave New World” (1980) || BBC
“Future Shock” (1972) || Documentary
“Ex Machina” (2015) || trailer/preview
“Tron” (1982) || trailer/preview
“Minimalism” (2017) || A Documentary
Top 25 Tech Movies of All Time || Venture Beat
Best Movies About Technology || Ranker
Best Tech Movies (by category) || CB Insights
Print Media (aka Books)
Radical Technologies || Adam Greenfield (Verso, 2017)
The Inevitable || Kevin Kelly (Viking, 2016)
Mindful Tech || David M. Levy (Yale University Press, 2016)
The World Beyond Your Head || Matthew B. Crawford (FSG, 2016)
We Have the Technology || Kara Platoni (Basic, 2015)
World Without Mind || Franklin Foer (Penguin, 2017)
Alone Together || Sherry Turkle (Basic, 2012)
Reclaiming Conversation || Sherry Turkle (Penguin, 2015)
The Shallows || Nicholas Carr (Norton, 2011)
Technopoly || Neil Postman (Vintage, 1993)
The Virtual Self || Nora Young (McClelland & Stewart, 2013)
The End of Absence || Michael Harris (Current, 2015)
The Attention Merchants || Tim Wu (Penguin, 2016)
Bored and Brilliant || Manoush Zomorodi (St. Martin’s, 2017)
Brave New World Revisited (full text) || Aldous Huxley (1958)
“The Top 25 Technology Books of All Time” || Venture Beat