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Apr 27

H. G. Wells’s World Brain and the Plight of the Invisible Worker

What a century-old vision of the global network tells us about “ghost” labor and the risks of intellectual totalitarianism in the age of AI

H. G. Wells’s World Brain and the Plight of the Invisible Worker

Alex Wright

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Mar 24

Patrick Geddes: Thinking in Systems

What a nineteenth-century tourist attraction can tell us about the structure of human knowledge, and what happens when there’s too much to…

Patrick Geddes: Thinking in Systems

Alex Wright

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Jan 8

The Moose and the Antelope

The story of how two quadrupeds—one real, one imaginary—came to Paris and helped shape the modern information age

The Moose and the Antelope

Alex Wright

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Jan 4

AI Slop Is Older Than You Think

We’ve all seen them: the weird cartoon explainers, cringe-inducing history videos narrated by synthetic voices, and recycled Wikipedia…

AI Slop Is Older Than You Think

Alex Wright

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Jan 1

Palaces in the Cloud

On memory, machines, and the forgotten art of medieval mnemonics

Palaces in the Cloud

Alex Wright

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Oct 26, 2024

The Secret History of “Data”: Reimagining the Past with AI and Machine Learning

Last week I had the opportunity to share a few remarks at Belgium’s KIKK Festival on new directions in machine learning and historical…

The Secret History of “Data”: Reimagining the Past with AI and Machine Learning

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Alex Wright

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Aug 22, 2024

Eudaimonia

n. 1) happiness; well-being. 2) Happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason — Webster’s

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Alex Wright

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May 6, 2023

Regenerative UX

“Nothing is easier than to formulate high ideals, but few things are more difficult than to discover the means whereby those ideals can be…

Image of workers in a factory with the caption: “An Industry Epoch: Changing the works of Ford employees to five-day movements.”

Alex Wright

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Jan 22, 2020

Moving Fast, Thinking Slow

In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a…

Moving Fast, Thinking Slow

Alex Wright

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Aug 20, 2019

Sprinting Fast and Slow

Experiential futures and speculative design practices have gained a lot of traction in the design world lately, fueled by a growing…

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Alex Wright

Alex Wright

Author, Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper (Basic Books, 2026)

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