Giz Asks

It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said,…

Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…

At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a…

Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed…

Spend enough time desperately googling cures for “brain fog” and “pathological procrastination” and you’re likely to…

To be alive is to feel fucking terrible, if not all then at least some of the time. Headaches, nausea, mysterious…

When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and…

People say other people’s dreams are boring, but what if the problem is technology? As a sense-conveying device,…

I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the…

Perhaps there is a world, in a distant galaxy, where I am being paid $6,000 a word to write this introduction. In…

There is technically no law against doing nothing while millions suffer and hundreds of thousands die from a disease…

Today, when you see an eerie child lift a toy with its mind in some hackneyed ‘80s-horror homage, you can be…

What’s worse: a future in which the robots turn against us or a future filled with robot stand-up comedians? Regular…

These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last…

Show me someone who looks cool in a VR headset, and I’ll show you a dork with no aesthetic sense. Largely, this has…

Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like…

It is the rare person who—logging off after a long day’s scrolling—thinks, “I need much more of that in my life.”…

Subconsciously, on some level, we’re all waiting for it: the leak that wrecks society and confirms what we all know…

How many sentences, since March, have started with the words “when all this is over”? Billions, probably, but fewer…

For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognize when they’re trapped in a dystopia. Watching their…