How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs…

How Much Electricity Does Bitcoin Use?

Probably less than one small Californian hydroelectric plant…

The Ecuadorian Library

or, The Blast Shack After Three Years

Print! A Guide for Perplexed Web Denizens

Preliminary advice for web writers on managing the weird…

We Have Always Coded

Why are there so few male programmers? Evolution. A brief history of women’s work…

The Values of Money

Bitcoin, Money, and Datalove, Part One

Planting For the Future

Three stories about foresight and oak trees.

They may have the money, but we have the tools of technology.

Text from my 89plus Marathon speech at the Serpentine gallery, 19/10/13

Usually I make things with computers. On the rare times I stand on a stage…

A Utopia of One’s Own

Larry Page wants to create zones for unfettered techno-social experimentation…

The Sweet Little Criminal Next Door

Whenever a criminal mastermind is arrested, reporters interview…