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Not everyone concurs. In the face of a burning planet, the idea of using technology to achieve immortality seems naive at best. Young people in China are…

WIRED: What's your first memory of the original Matrix? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: I might have been 14. I remember trying to lean back, trying to do that move…

1.A young man in a gray flannel robe sits calmly at a table, in front of a featureless black box. He's wearing a cap that looks like it's made of gauze…

On September 26, 2018, a row of tech executives filed into a marble- and wood-paneled hearing room and sat down behind a row of tabletop microphones and tiny…

Perhaps unsurprisingly, reactions to Morton have been intense and polarized. Hyperobjects has (and hyperobjects have) been called “pessimistic,”…

Within 24 hours, all the Punks were gone; one man who saw the post amassed 758 of them.Within days, collectors started to buy and sell—but right away, they…

Like religious prophets, Big Tech luminaries are ­preaching the coming of the next internet. According to their gospel—blog posts by tech companies and…

Let’s face it: Nobody likes to travel.Whether they’re traveling to get to an exotic location for vacation or traveling to work on a daily commute, nobody…

Over lunch, roughly when we'd started considering dessert, I asked Stephenson how that reception feels. He seemed a little chagrined—and he told me a story…

Tactical Studies Rules, the company cofounded by Gary Gygax to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons, held its annual “GenCon” convention in the…