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“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…
September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments
In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…
July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments
The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology – but it’s also easier than ever to destabilise these states, thanks to technology. The question is:…
June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities. Just over a century ago, an electric company in Minnesota took out a full-page newspaper advertisement and listed 1,000 uses…
April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Are we entering a new planetary era? A working group of scientists met in Berlin last week to start answering this Earth-shifting question.
March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Is it really true that the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet? When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened…
August 30 2010, 4:30am | Comments
We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…
June 23 2010, 9:48am | Comments
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