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2000s Analog Cyberpunk Is A Helluva Style

The Importance of Reading (and Teaching) Cyberpunk in the Age of AI

Looking for answers — and finding hope —in the cyberpunk of the past, present, and future. The post The Importance of Reading (and Teaching) Cyberpunk in the Age of AI appeared fir...

Can Nirosta Steel Survive His Sudden Success?

He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there.

Street Craft / Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir

Issue No. 133

The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Tak...

Artist Builds Monumental Futures Where Cities Rise Through Canyons, Transit Systems Hang in the Sky, and Architecture Te...

Corey Danaher ia a British futurist world-builder, architectural specialist, and 3D spatial designer who creates monumental speculative environments using AI, digital design, and c...

CARBON ZERO

In 2036, Abigail Thompson, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working as an intern for the summer at Intelligenics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A...

Photographer Spencer Lowell Embraces the Occasionally Bizarre Intersection of Humans and Tech

Photographer Spencer Lowell's first monograph, Futures Past, delivers 57 color images across nearly 100 pages, each unified by its visual investigation of technological progress an...

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

Robin F. Williams Suspends the Allure and Horror of Technology in an Endless Loop

Robin F. Williams extrapolates on the ways humanity and machines could merge, capturing a strange techno-dystopia. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal...

Pixel Scroll 8/25/26 Go Ask Alice, When She’s Ten Pixels Tall

(1) STAYING FROSTY. To explain one of his plot points in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon returns “To the Kelvinator Station” at Tragic Magic. ….I deci...

Jeremy Stern’s Profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus

Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and spend another few d...

The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Tak...

Pixel Scroll 10/19/26 Pixel Two: “And If You Try To Escape, Pixel Six, You Will Be Chased Down And Swallowed By A Giant,...

(1) META SCRAPING UPDATE. Stephen Beale, whose The Steampunk Explorer post “New Meta Commercial Terms Raise Questions for Steampunk Creators” was linked in The 10/17 Pixel Scroll,...

Pixel Scroll 10/6/26 Pixels Against Humanity

(1) UKRANIAN PROTAGONIST FEATURES IN SCHROEDER COLLECTION. Richard Horton reviews Karl Schroeder’s new collection, all of his stories about Gennady Malianov: “Heavy ‘light stories’...

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial...

Book Excerpt: Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Exit Party’ Imagines a Future Where a Spy Could Disappear

In Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party, becoming a “ghost” means running afoul of the state. In this excerpt, a secret agent discovers it doesn’t take much.

Pixel Scroll 9/23/26 There Is More Than 10% Chance Pixel Could File All Scrolls Within The Next Decade

(1) STOKERCON 2027 ADDS GOH. StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association’s annual event, announced its final GoH on Facebook today: The Horror Writers Association and StokerCon are p...

30 Best Tech Books to Gift in 2026: Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés

Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.

ASCII CITY: a cyberpunk city explored in pseudo-3D plaintext

ASCII CITY is an explorable cyberpunk city rendered in three dimensions with plain text characters. You can run the streets, enter buildings and take lifts to see it all from diffe...

A Science Fiction Novel That Stress-Tests Our Political Future

Theodore Judson has written, 'The Timerman,' a sequel to his much beloved novel 'Fitzpatrick's War' about the political and technological struggles after the fall of America.

Artist Creates Futuristic Landscapes Where Architecture, Machines, and Human Scale Begin to Feel Uncomfortably Unreal

Stuart Lippincott is a 3D digital artist from Bentonville, Arkansas, whose daily-render practice has made him one of the most recognizable names in futuristic online art. Stuart’s...

Katie Notopoulos on Alexandr Wang’s ‘Faux-Hallmark Pap’

Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang’s “Why We’re Building Muse” essay: This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for...

Fragments: August 24

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI...