https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/Recent content on Digital AnthropologyHugoen-usFri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/the-measure-of-progress/Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/the-measure-of-progress/In an age obsessed with metrics, we rarely pause to ask whether the things we measure are the things that matter most. This essay explores the quiet tyranny of quantification in science and society.https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/attention-and-the-internet/Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/attention-and-the-internet/The internet did not merely change what we read. It changed the conditions under which thinking itself becomes possible. An exploration of attention as the fundamental scarce resource of the twenty-first century.https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/uncertainty-as-a-scientific-virtue/Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/uncertainty-as-a-scientific-virtue/Modern science is often presented as a machine for producing certainty. In reality, its greatest strength may lie in its disciplined relationship to what remains unknown or provisional.https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/long-term-thinking/Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://digital-anthropology.pages.dev/posts/long-term-thinking/Our institutions and moral imaginations are calibrated to short timescales. Yet many of the most consequential decisions we face require us to think seriously about centuries and millennia. What would it mean to take deep time seriously?