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Networked hatred
EVERY ERA IS defined by its sustaining myths. Among ours is surely ‘disruption’. The book that seeded the mythology,...
Discounted goods
WALK THROUGH THE doors of a suburban op shop and you’ll find the residue of household (de)composition that was...
Guarding the gatekeepers
WARS OFTEN RAGE behind the estimated ten million Wikipedia pages: edit wars, where editors repeatedly override each other’s contributions...
The hydrogen economy
BEFORE THERE WAS Matt Damon in the film adaptation of The Martian, there was Cyrus Harding in Jules Verne’s...
Reading in the dark
I WAS WITH friends, high up on a range looking west and down through a long and beautiful valley...
On becoming posthuman
YOUR 185-MILLIONTH GREAT grandparents were fish. Your descendants will not be human forever. In a world of climate change,...
Clean sweep
IT IS SUPPOSED to be test of character. An A+ student sits down to the final exam of his...
The network versus the hierarchy
‘IT IS EASIER to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.’ So wrote...
Narcissus triumphant
I LIKE TO look in mirrors, a predilection I suspect I share with many others – all of us too...
Rebooting the sharing economy
IN LATE OCTOBER 2010, I found myself in the city of San Francisco for the first time. I was...
Lessons from the Valley
THERE’S SOMETHING ENDURINGLY disconcerting about flying into Silicon Valley from Australia, where you arrive before you leave. If Silicon...
Sortition
ANY DEMOCRACY WORTHY of the name must be an ongoing experiment in institutional design: there must be a willingness...
