Ian Bogost
The Atlantic
Atlanta, GA, United States
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Past articles by Ian:
The Triumph of LaGuardia, America’s Worst Airport
LaGuardia is reborn, and it has a message for the nation. → Read More
Netflix Crossed a Line
The intangibles you didn’t even realize you had come to expect are disappearing. → Read More
What Did Twitter Turn Us Into?
People just can’t stop tweeting about all the tweets they see. → Read More
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun. → Read More
The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now
But at least you have something to talk about. → Read More
You Must Respect Candy Corn
Even in paradise, death lurks. → Read More
Your Smart Thermostat Isn’t Here to Help You
But that doesn’t mean it’s useless. → Read More
The E-bike Is a Monstrosity
Neither bicycle nor motorbike, the two-wheeler’s future demands an identity of its own. → Read More
The Tech Industry Is in Its Whistleblower Era
Like so much else, the act of informing on bad actors for good reasons has become tainted. → Read More
Hybrid Work Is Doomed
Office workers work in offices, for better or for worse. → Read More
The Crypto Crash Feels Amazing
It could have been me. I’m glad it wasn’t me. → Read More
Elon Musk and the Kingdom of Bull
The world’s richest man has invented a new way to disregard the truth. → Read More
I Hugged a Cow
At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city. The escape became a nuisance, then a scene, then a phenomenon. “Man, it was crazy!” one onlooker told the local alt-weekly. “I mean, it was fucking bulls running through the city of St. Louis!” What seemed at first to be their daring getaway would later be… → Read More
The Threat of Cyberwar Has Finally Arrived
A risk first described almost 30 years ago is now mature. → Read More
The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. → Read More
I Figured Out Wordle’s Secret
It took me four guesses. → Read More
The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email
A revolution against Big Tech may never come. Could a series of smaller interventions take its place? → Read More
A Tiny Outrage Machine, Sucking the Exhaust From a Giant One
You can’t even fight a social network without a social network. → Read More
Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one. → Read More
Welcome to Election Purgatory
Time has stopped. Just keep scrolling. → Read More