The dream is over. Technology, technology companies, and integrated sociopolitical communication systems are not coming to save us. They were never neutral, and they failed at the first serious encounter with technically mediated political extremism. Not accidentally. Voluntarily. They did not merely look away. They amplified, rewarded, and normalised it, all while their balance sheets […]
The atmosphere of American politics now resembles a dense fog of ideological noise. What registers as outrage, conviction or disgust is less the product of reasoned belief than the mechanics of replication: the simplest, most virulent signals race ahead of nuance. Words once tethered to meaning drift as tokens in a saturated field, their resonance […]
The world does not reward what it most urgently needs. Peace, wisdom, unity, compassion, foresight—these qualities generate too little turbulence to capture bandwidth in networks tuned to maximize throughput. Conflict, by contrast, multiplies combinations of noise, feeding the entropic appetite of systems that scale dissonance into profit. The result is a Gordian knot: we require […]
Tyranny is not strength but stupidity disguised as power. It thrives on the illusion of permanence, convincing itself that the bubble it inhabits will not burst. Yet every empire, every system of control, has dissolved into dust. The tyrant clings to the fiction that what they know and what they are will matter forever, but […]
Extreme economic doctrines—whether right or left—are structural performances, temporary galvanizations around dysfunction. They flare precisely because they replicate the fractures that sustain them. What appears as crisis-management is, in fact, a choreography of failure made durable. The intentional destruction of poverty is not an error of policy but a condition of possibility for wealth at […]
The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]
Context: Quantum computers are on the path to solving bigger problems for BMW, LG and others I am curious as to the strategy and/or lack of one here. Quantum Computing finds itself well-placed to negotiate a range of mathematically intricate issues that have commercial applications. Just as with the explosively radiative speciation of AI, the […]
Turning a profit from loneliness through the promise and perfect fantasy of attention, loving gratitude and intimacy from beautiful people is the essence of all entertainment, all media and – if we’re to be particularly honest about the underlying psychological symmetries – of all business, all politics and all ideology.
If money is the problem, it is probably also the solution.
Social media addiction is a growing phenomenon. It is a problem-space defined by the deep irony that the more connected we all become by the putatively “social” information and communication technologies, the more isolated we all feel ourselves to be. In this context, expectation is fundamentally, foundationally discontinuous with experience.
In the Brave New World of technologically-facillitated hyper-profits and extravagant digital interconnectivity, most of us are just products and revenue sources. There are only so many seats on the corporate Lear Jet of extreme affluence. The true costs of all of this mad rush into information-abundance and wealth-generation are not being rationally assessed…
Complex emergent natural phenomena (of which human organisations are a logical sub-set) possess developmental biases towards evolutionary selection mechanisms favouring systemic continuity…
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