Archive - Analog Crusade

Let's not rewrite the book on writing just yet

ChatGPT and other automatons

Feb 1 •

Michael Marinaccio

October 2023

Jurassic Automation

Screenwriters always seem to bulldoze through the most impactful parts of the books they turn into movies. I recently picked up Michael Crichton’s…

Oct 17, 2023 •

Michael Marinaccio

May 2022

Sexualizing Our Time

In his homily on October 8, 1995, Pope St. John Paul II addressed a crowd at Oriole Park in Baltimore, warning Americans of our "permissive mentality…

May 23, 2022 •

Michael Marinaccio

March 2022

Transparent Thoughts

I had a thought the other day. There is this man, a friend of a friend. As far as I can tell, he is a kind husband, an attentive father, and a model…

Mar 29, 2022 •

Michael Marinaccio

August 2019

Perpetual consciousness and abusing abstraction

Reflections on leaving Twitter

Aug 20, 2019 •

Michael Marinaccio

July 2019

Foreshadowing an internet health crisis

On Thursday, I will be in attendance as the White House gathers technologists at a social media summit to discuss the growing concern of major tech…

Jul 10, 2019 •

Michael Marinaccio

August 2017

Does the internet make us better?

You’ve had the internet for 20 years now. Are you smarter? It’s a worthwhile question — given the huge increases in time spent online and the shrinking…

Aug 5, 2017 •

Michael Marinaccio

May 2017

Silicon Valley’s Obsession with the Future Is Older Than You Think

In 996 AD, a Benedictine monk named Father Gerbert, who would later become Pope Sylvester II, created the first modern mechanical clock. It was a…

May 15, 2017 •

Michael Marinaccio

April 2017

The Telegraph Changed How You Spend Your Time

We’re so busy filling our quotas, we never stopped to ask if we should.

Apr 17, 2017 •

Michael Marinaccio

January 2017

You’re not distracted. You’re entertained.

Stop blaming media, fake news, and click bait.

Jan 28, 2017 •

Michael Marinaccio

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