It’s a dream week for tech docs
The Verge David Pierce
The Verge’s Installer No. 148 is packed with tech-docs reading, listening, and nostalgia. It jumps from Andreessen to MySpace to an Alan Turing album in one breath.
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The Verge’s Installer No. 148 arrives as a kind of curated scavenger hunt: a guide to the site’s “best and Verge-iest” picks, delivered with the usual mix of obsession and side-eye. This week’s edition reaches across tech, culture, and old internet muscle memory without trying to make any of it feel orderly.
The reading list alone is a strange little time capsule. Marc Andreessen shows up alongside a piece about the future of math, while another pick pairs Mike Tomlin with Citizens United. Somewhere in the middle of all that, the newsletter is also thinking about the heyday of MySpace, which is its own kind of nostalgia bait.
It doesn’t stop at reading. There’s an article that’s apparently good enough to send around as an apology for bad texting, plus a new Pet Shop Boys album built around Alan Turing. Dwarkesh Patel gets a mention too, this time for thoughts on AI. And then there’s the almost-dangerous temptation to preorder an iPhone Duo.
The whole thing has the vibe of a person emptying a very particular bag onto the table: politics, old social networks, AI, pop music, and a little hardware lust. It’s not a neat theme. That’s the point. Installer seems happiest when it treats tech as part of a bigger mess of people, habits, and whatever is stuck in the group chat this week.
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This is the rare tech roundup that understands gadgets are only half the story; the other half is culture, and culture is where the fun lives. The industry keeps trying to sell clean categories, but the internet has always been a junk drawer. That’s why newsletters like this still work: they don’t pretend the mess is a bug.
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