Thomas

Even when the tradeoffs are more clear, I think that technology has to feel humane and serve very human purposes to be worthwhile. Most gadgets feel careless and unwholesome and I worry that they, subconsciously, cause us to treat our homes differently. They are not viscerally pleasing, and if you have enough of that sort of thing in your home I... See more

The role of metaphor and narrative, as opposed to new theories or experiments, is too little recognised in discussions of the historian of science Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, supposed (and contested) moments of dramatic change in science. All scientists know how to go about scrutinising a theory: you use it to formulate some testable hypothesis,... See more

Grow a Garden recently blew past the Epic Games shooter Fortnite to set a record for most users playing simultaneously, at more than 20 million. Cumulatively, Grow a Garden has already been played more than 12 billion times.There are Roblox games that have been played more, but they took years to get where they are, versus a few months for Grow a... See more