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Instagram turns 20 on this day in 2030

The ‘photo filtering app’ has changed dramatically — and changed the world around it

Jacob Kastrenakes
Imagine a world without YouTube

It’s easy if you try

Adi Robertson
An AI video game moderator goes rogue in “Machine of Loving Grace”

A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Katherine Cross
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Elizabeth Bonesteel
Skin City

A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Kelly Robson
A spacecraft carries precious cargo to a new planet in “A Sun Will Always Sing”
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A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Karin Lowachee
Wake Word: A game about the ridiculous future of bad AI

An algorithmic nightmare

Adi Robertson and William Joel
Augmented reality helps decode a global hallucination in “The Burn”

A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Peter Tieryas
The god box: an oral history of Avatara

Verge fiction: The Facebook game studio that built an AI god

Adi Robertson
A trash garden is paradise and prison in Rivers Solomon’s story, “St. Juju”
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A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Rivers Solomon
An AI combats hurricane season in “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season”

A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Cadwell Turnbull
Two engineers try to make an immortal dog in John Scalzi’s “A Model Dog”
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A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

John Scalzi
An e-pet reunion takes an unexpected turn in “Online Reunion”

A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Leigh Alexander
An open-source rocket could reshape society in “A Theory of Flight”
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A story from Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope

Justina Ireland