Adam McCauley

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I am a writer by nature, journalist by training, and an academic by temperament. At the heart of it, I love stories. Well-told. I write about politics, technology, and the future.

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The View From Here

By Adam McCauley

The View From Here offers an array of essays, arguments-as-prose, book reviews, and missives pulled from ongoing research, usually about politics, media, technology, and the future.

Adam McCauley

Feb 28

The question isn’t whether emerging technologies will generate benefits, but whether, how, and to what extent — we (as individuals, citizens, humans on planet earth) will ensure our voices can shape this future.

The View From Here

A Political Philosophy of Technology - or - From Mordor, with malice

Adam McCauley

Feb 28

I really love this description from

Charles Schifano

. We should think of the best writing as thinking on the page, but also recognize that writing — of all kinds, regardless of adherence to rules or traditions of style — can stimulate unique and distinct ways of thinking. In the age of computational content (algorithmic production), the distinct and mes…

Writing, at its best, is thinking on the page. Whether the sentences are descriptive or persuasive, whether the writer is reporting or entertaining, readers are transfixed when the page exposes the writer’s journey. A good sentence and paragraph and page carry the reader forward: on a sentence-by-sentence journey through the writer’s mind, focused on the trajectory of thought.

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I love this piece by

— smart, cutting, funny, and honest. The high water mark of personal writing that wrestles with the consequences of our technology-enveloped life.

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of speaking with

Nicholas Carr

and I keep thinking of a line from his latest book, Superbloom: "The computer is so quick to sense and fulfill our…

if I gave in to his temptations for even a moment, suddenly it was already dark, the day was gone, and I had absolutely no memory of what I’d been scrolling through for the last three hours. I suppose I was looking at whatever I wanted to look at in that particular moment. Huge complex machines exist purely to show me more of the kind of things I like. Strange how all this fulfilment never seems to leave you feeling good. Strange how indulging all your idlest urges feels like you’ve mortgaged a portion of your life to Hell.

Sam Kriss