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Last week, Toby Shorin published some fascinating predictions about how this pandemic will affect culture and technology, and he let me contribute some…
Drew Austin
Apr 3
The lateness of today’s newsletter reflects the fact that time isn’t real anymore and everything is blurring together. I almost forgot it’s Friday. But…
Drew Austin
Mar 21
Every crisis has two constituencies—those directly affected (in this case, anyone who actually contracts coronavirus), and everyone else, who experienc…
Drew Austin
Mar 13
I spent last week relatively offline in Mexico, which became an interesting experiment in how the internet shapes perception: During the vacation, alar…
Drew Austin
Mar 6
Rem Koolhaas’ Countryside exhibition opened at the Guggenheim Museum this week, providing an opportunity to ask the question that the concept of “count…
Drew Austin
Feb 21
Moby-Dick concludes as perfectly as any novel ever has: “…then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand year…
Drew Austin
Feb 14
I’ll never forget where I was when I found out Kobe Bryant died two weeks ago: in front of my computer, scrolling through Twitter. Recalling one’s exac…
Drew Austin
Feb 7
We skipped from #112 to #114 today. That’s not due to superstition (I don’t think 113 is unlucky) but because I noticed I sent two consecutive #108s in…
Drew Austin
Jan 31
“Race to the bottom” is a phrase that usually describes the effects of globalization—the degradation of wages and working conditions that occurs when l…
Drew Austin
Jan 24
Last year, I wrote an essay for Real Life about AirPods despite not owning a pair myself at the time. That was intentional and fairly essential to the …
Drew Austin
Jan 10
Happy New Year! This week is an opportunity to ponder decade-long trend arcs and make grandiose pronouncements of what the last ten years were “about,”…
Drew Austin
Jan 3
About ten years ago—a point at which some stage of an advanced technological future already seemed to have arrived—I sat with a friend at the People’s …
Drew Austin
Dec 20, 2019
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