A Beautiful Dialectic
This article shows why John Naughton is one of the sharpest and wisest tech critics around.
There is nothing inevitable about automation. How it rolls out is dependent on human decisions. The effect it has is up for grabs too. It could be a Mad Max techno-apocalypse or it could…
How is consumerism misdirected creativity? In the new Rolex cinema ad, Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron and Alejandro González Iñárritu tell us what drives their…
In Mateja Kovacic’s article in The Conversation, robots that once existed only in science fiction are now at work…
A group of surrealists play a game of consequences or exquisite corpse, as they call it. Each artist…
I went to hear Alex McDowell speak at the Houses of Parliament last week, courtesy of…
In How To Be A Craftivist, Sarah Corbett defines craftivism as gentle protest. It is the opposite of…
The Post-Workists look to a future without jobs, where full automation has eradicated much of human labour. Andy Beckett described the thinking and met some of the key thinkers in a long read essay in the Guardian newspaper called Post Work: the radical idea of a world without work.