Over at The Atlantic, Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance has a fantastical and fantastically harrowing new essay about hypothetical doomsday machines and the not-so-hypothetical horrors of Facebook. She considers the theoretical concept of a doomsday device—a failsafe machine hooked up to an infinite number of sensors that, if it notices enough radiation, while automatically trigger an onslaught of nuclear warheads, thus ushering in our mutually-assured destruction. — Read the rest
