The Question That Clears a Room
The degree I didn’t have The civilian police turned me down because I didn’t have...
Freedom of speech
Google Wants a Virtual Power Plant
Who Gets to Control the Switch? Artificial intelligence needs electricity on an industrial scale, and...
The Storm Arrived On Time. The Flood Defences Didn’t.
The season nobody puts on the calendar Nine years. That’s how long a small group...
Organic Data Processing
The Soul Was Always a Remix This morning I asked a machine whether an article...
The Spreadsheet Will See You Now
The Decision Nobody Made Gene Lokken was ninety-one when he fell in the spring of...
The Price of Access:
When Political Donations Become an Investment in Power Sixty-seven donors. $333 million. A presidential ballroom....
Collective Punishment With Better PR
The word that lets us sleep Some words are chosen because they describe a thing....
The Speed Limit on Survival
A hundred miles an hour. On a British motorway, it’s roughly the point where a...
I Haven’t Fallen Out With the World…
I’ve Simply Changed My Relationship With It There comes a time in life when you...
You’re Not the Affiliate, You’re the Product
The Inbox Never Sleeps Even out here, with the signal coming and going like a...
