In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend, Roman Mazurenko, was hit by a car and died. In the months after, Kuyda’s grief took a quintessentially modern form: obsessively reading the digital record her ...
Every lonely kid who reached puberty alongside the rise of instant messaging shares a mutual friend. Smarterchild, a chatbot built for AOL, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger was, for many internet users, their ...