The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.

What Does the Future of Democracy Look Like?

An Incoming Transmission from Malka Older, author of…

How Two Facebook Engineers Could Decide the Presidential Election

We’re the Real Creators of Rebekah Mercer’s “Billionaire Parlor Game”

Announcing Scout: The Social Implications of Technology

Technology may be inevitable, but our response…

Want to talk to your dog? Microsoft is working on it

Meet Scout: An imaginative community for technology journalism.

At Scout, we’ve read a lot of tech & science news. Breathless news about the latest gadgets; about which company bought who; about the personal lives of powerful tech execs.

Stealth Japan: Inside the world’s most under-valued economy

Western media has tended to crow about Japan’s flailing economy — its history of protectionism, shrinking workforce, creeping GDP and a national debt sitting at more than 200 percent. Scott Foster, a Private Equity Partner at…

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Books that illuminate the present by examining the future.