The Second Earth… And the Machines That Will Grow Up There 
Freedom of Speech… Until Somebody Says Something We Don’t Like 
The Illusion of the Local Council: 
The Atomization Economy 
The Last Human Variable 
The Second Earth… And the Machines That Will Grow Up There
For years, we have been told that artificial intelligence would change the world. Most of...
Freedom of Speech… Until Somebody Says Something We Don’t Like
Freedom of speech is perhaps the only subject where almost everyone claims to support it…...
The Illusion of the Local Council:
How Outsourced Policy Quietly Erased Local Democracy There was a time when local governance, for...
The Atomization Economy
I live in a cave. Actual rock, actual dust, actual silence you could cut into...
The Last Human Variable
Right, let’s talk about the ghost town nobody built and everybody’s already living in. I’ve...
The Last Place Without Signal
I used to judge a journey by how quickly the mobile signal disappeared. Not out...
The Maths of Being Alone
I did the sum properly the other morning, sitting with the kind of coffee you...
The KDP Gold Rush is Over…
Why It’s Time to Stop Buying the Hype and Build a Real Audience If you...
The Cruelty of Digital Immortality
I have always found it fascinating that humanity seems incapable of leaving well alone. Give...
The Death of the Third Place (Again)
and Why You’ll Soon Be Paying to Be Spoken to Nicely I live in a...