Bad Writing is About to Become Incredibly Valuable As technology continues to advance, we are seeing more and more automation in various industries. This includes the field of writing, where tools like grammar checkers and AI-powered writing assistants Thomas Smith 14 Dec 2022 · 1 min read
ChatGPT Is Having a Thomas Edison Moment ChatGPT is blowing up. Twitter is inundated with screenshots of the app, coding sites like Stack Overflow are already banning answers produced with it, and over 1 million people have Thomas Smith 14 Dec 2022 · 3 min read
In Praise of the Hot-Water Bottle The hot-water bottle is a simple invention that has been providing warmth and comfort for centuries. Despite the proliferation of more modern heating technologies, the hot-water bottle remains a reliable Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 2 min read
Drones and applications Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are aerial vehicles that are operated remotely by a human pilot or autonomously through the use of computers. They are commonly used Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 2 min read
An Edible Drone, “Long Social Distancing”, and A Psychiatric Evaluation of Star Wars Characters 1) 🧵 The gorgeous curved wall-quilts of Emily Van HoffI’m a huge fan of quilting art and its geometric patterns. It’s a genre that looked incredibly modern, and even Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
Rewilding Your Attention With An Old-School Blog Index As longtime readers of this blog probably know, I’m low-key obsessed with the idea of “rewilding your attention” — or, how to spend less time staring at the stuff that Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
What’s A Minecraft Poem Worth? How much might a poem be worth? I thought of this while reading about the origins of the Minecraft “End Poem” this week. If you’ve never played Minecraft — but Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
Tiny Snippets of Code That Changed The World In 1997, Ethan Zuckerman broke the Internet — by inventing the pop-up ad. He was working for Tripod.com, an online service that let people make little web pages for free. Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
The Awesome Power of Well-Documented Code Okay nerds, this one’s for you. Back when I was researching my book Coders, I talked to a lot of folks who ran very successful open-source projects. “What”, I Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation I made a web tool that lets you spy your hidden literary styleBack in 2016, Adam J. Calhoun wrote a fascinating Medium post in which he showed off something quite Clive Thompson 13 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
