John Gallagher’s Technology Newsletter
John R. GallagherThoughts about technology, writing, and the internet. I try to write 1-2 longform posts a week.
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The first four chapters of the fantasy novel I wrote for my kids
Chapter 1
Vim crouched on a slope. Below her, the birds grazed on the metal flowers. Two adult cantros cawed in friendly conversation. The baby snuggled against their legs. The massive birds, though unable to fly, could gallop with their...
The best empirical studies I have read about GenAI in 2026, in APA format
1. Abdulhai, M., White, I., Wan, Y., Qureshi, I., Leibo, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Jaques, N. (2026). How LLMs Distort Our Written Language (arXiv:2603.18161). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.18161
2. Acemoglu, D., Kong, D., &...
Google's acidification of the internet
Before search engines, the internet was a mess. No one knew how to get to any websites. Google and other search engines helped put some structure in place. Their guidelines for website design were generally helpful for making sure websites...
The growth of template rhetoric in an AI society
Everyone seems to be noticing how bad AI writing is. AI-hypester Ethan Mollick seems to have finally realized it:
I don’t follow Mollick, a professor who studied crowdsourcing before turning to GenAI. But I was shocked that he is only now...
The Antidote to Screen Time is Story Time
Everyone knows they’re on screens too much. Merely writing a blog post about such a topic is a fairly banal, insipid observation. The real genuine quandary is what do we do instead of screen time. Every time I bring this up to my students,...
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I am a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.. I write about AI technologies, teaching writing, and social media. I have studied writing since 2006. I try to write longform blog posts, a lost art.
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