Silicon Valley capitalists think you shouldn’t have a say in how technology works. The 19th-century Luddite movement offers us clues about how to wrest back control.
We live in the attention economy; we live in the narrative economy. We live in a hot-take economy; we live in a bad economy.
Sometimes, we want to throw away our phones, quit social media, and go out and hang with the Parrots of Telegraph Hill, or the Night Herons of Lake Merritt.
This week, join Current in tech critiques and the touching of grass:
Cole Hersey kicks off "Meet the Locals," our guide to native species, with the California live oak
