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Humans are motivated by community. We are interested in helping others. We aren’t just faking it – not just playing for ‘likes’. Compassion is real.

Our liveliest connections with others, or with a piece of art, or an experience, are invisible (no hardware), yet they are the strongest and most profound parts of life.

Whatever your day job, you, me, all of us are working for the tech companies for no pay. Free stuff is not free. Give your data, give yourself.

Humans are not Nature/Nurture. Humans are narrative.

Working class. As the great historian of labour E. P. Thompson put it, ‘Class is a relationship. Not a thing.’ That is, class is mistaken for a noun, like horse, or house, but class doesn’t exist in its own right. It isn’t a thing. And it isn’t a natural phenomenon – like gravity. In an equal society, class would not exist. Social division is relat

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

Acceleration has been the keyword in our world since the Industrial Revolution. Machines use time differently to humans. Computers are not time-bound. As biological beings, humans are subject to time, most importantly our allotted span: we die.

Our modern-day secularism, with its dogmatic non-quantum materialism, has made us less able to manage the psychological consequences of non-human embodiment than our ancestors.

In reality, Big Tech is about global reach, global control, and a business model that seeks global power without local responsibility.