There is a line, in the final episode of the new Apple original podcast Project Unabom, taken out of the mouth of the Unabomber himself. “My bombing campaign ended 22 years ago, my trial was completed 19 years ago,” the anti-tech domestic terrorist wrote in a 2017 letter. “Yet all…

This is a heavily truncated extract from this week’s post on my Future Proof newsletter. It is cross-posted here due to the generous support of my paid subscribers there! Please join those good folk, by subscribing for as little as £2.50 a month! Last week, it was announced that FaZe…

There is an old adage about London buses, which goes something like “you wait an eternity for one to come along, and then three come at once”. It is deployed, primarily, as a metaphor for opportunities in life, and how perseverance is sometimes rewarded, but often in a frustrating deluge…

This blog appeared first, last week, in my newsletter Future Proof. Thanks to the kind supporters of that newsletter, I can reproduce it here. Do join them as a subscriber, if you can. Are you a high functioning adult? Chances are, if you’re smart enough to be subscribed to this…

We’re at the halfway mark of 2022. Yay? It feels like we’re living in the end times, and, any moment now, we’ll be standing in a field, wearing a billowing white dress, singing kumbaya while an asteroid heads earthward, ready to put us all out of our misery. …