The Crown and the Machine
A man in his late seventies stands before the British Parliament wearing several centuries of borrowed authority — crown, ermine, a phalanx of guards whose uniforms date from wars nobody living can possibly remember —...
Theme archive
Musings on Digital Power
Digital platforms, data, surveillance, networks, software, and the concentration of technological power.
The Black Box Problem
Proceeding with Caution in the Development of AI
Two Priesthoods
My local pharmacy ran out of tablets by the second week.
Narrative Matters
The Real Threat of Artificial Technology
The Car Was Never The Point
Energy in a Civilisation Built to Move
The Anxiety Economy
Who Profits When You Can't Put The Phone Down
A Cartography of Ghosts
Navigating the Regimes of Industrial Economism
The Frame that Admits No Reply
Christine McDougall, who writes at Syntropic World and has spent twenty years building the models and the language her project needs, has published an essay called 95% Yanged Out. It’s a furious, exact, and, in large...
A Most Discrete Desertion
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
A Picture of Wellness
Proactive Health in the Context of Change
The Gas Nobody Noticed
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
Transforming Healthcare
Wellness and Wellbeing in an Ageing Society
From Records to Rights
How Data Systems Recode Human Possibility
The Text Belongs To The Reader Now
On misreading, projection, and what the noise tells us
Not Nostradamus. But...
Dispatches from the End of Empire
A Uniquely Human Predicament
Refusing to Step Into the Mechanical Future
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