These are strange times.
Criticism is hard
Probably less than one small Californian hydroelectric plant, and more than 600 average American homes.
Bitcoin, Money, and Datalove, Part One
Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go.
Here at Infinity AR we’ve got one mission: to get you laid.
If drone delivery is inevitable, view pollution is too.
What if disability isn’t a medical condition? What if it’s a consequence of bad design?
The dirty capitalist secret behind “those damn kids”
Three stories about foresight and oak trees.
Caught between the unimaginable and the unthinkable, it’s time to update your pension plan.
An introduction to soft culture via soft grunge
The surface of Earth’s twin planet may be a runaway climate disaster, but its milder sky would feel just like home
Live updates from a media death cult.
The Media’s Most Idiotic Anonymous Story
The modern data centre is rows and rows of humming computer cabinets locked behind layers of security. It doesn’t have to be.
Thanks to the housing crisis, Airbnb users are buying up cheap dwellings as rental properties. So is Wall Street.
or, how to become famous with your eyes closed.
Preliminary advice for web writers on managing the weird world of the dead-tree press
How I Learned to Stop Worrying (For Now) About Glass.
Text from my 89plus Marathon speech at the Serpentine gallery, 19/10/13
If you’d never heard of Viridian Design, this guide is where you should start
The Holden Test is taken by any human who must judge whether a particular actor is the same as themselves, or merely machine.
It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately.
In 1998, Bruce Sterling set out to engineer a green design movement. In 2008, he shut it down. Five years later, it is time to reflect.
Entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue wants to save a homeless man by teaching him to code. The problem is: fairy tales don’t scale
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