Behaviours / Thinking

My fear is not that robots are coming for our jobs but that if we don’t attend to it, the people creating the technology will be single-handedly in charge of how it changes our lives. We urgently need voices from outside the tech industry to help shape its future.

Debía Tirar Más Fotos is an important album. It will mean a lot to millions. But when the only way to experience it live is from a screen or from the very back row of an arena, pride becomes a performance, not a lived experience.

It’s a strange thing watching your culture rise globally but feeling left out of the celebration. It feels like we’re goo... See more

There’s a seductive narrative here: that buying old clothes is inherently more ethical. But the moment something becomes cool, capitalism finds a way to repackage and resell it.

The affordances of different types of online space change how information is produced, circulated, and remembered across platforms. What happens when platforms enable the archival of information? What happens when they encourage collective experiences versus personal, inward-facing ones?

lmost every digital detox ends in relapse, because the online world is with us everywhere we go, a dark cloud hanging above us. The internet is inescapable.

Nostalgia, as Mark Fisher predicted, has never been more potent. We can’t stop longing for the past – and increasingly, even the very recent past, via the “nowstalgia” of rapid-cycling trends – at the expense of creating something genuinely novel.