This Christmas, spare a thought for the world’s richest man
For disruptors like Elon Musk, the statement of intent is all. What happens next – such as running a new…
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Elon Musk proves the absolute power of the markets
The Tesla billionaire helped Donald Trump secure his victory – and, by extension, so did we all.
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Silicon Valley’s greatest moonshot
Big Tech’s billionaires aren’t scared of Trump – they like what he’s selling.
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Ali Smith’s data dystopia
Her mind-expanding new novel Gliff draws battle lines between art, language and Big Tech.
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Elon Musk wants us to have more children
Is demography the new front line of the culture wars?
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Deepfake technology endangers us all
It's not just politicians and global celebrities who suffer the consequences of AI-generated images: they can affect anyone with a…
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Trapped by apps
Thanks to the digitisation of everyday essentials, we waste a far greater proportion of our lives on admin than our…
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America’s dime-store Nietzscheans
What the unmasking of an anonymous publisher and Twitter personality reveals about the far right in the US.
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Gaza and the new digital divide
A widening generation gap is polarising online news audiences – and coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has made the rift…
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The rise of WhatsApp government
How the text message is transforming our democracies.
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The lonely land
Why are so many young people feeling so isolated? Is it because of smartphones, as the American social psychologist Jonathan…
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The wisest investment in your child is not giving them a smartphone
Preserving your child’s ability to focus confers a competitive advantage.
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Elon Musk’s fight against workers’ rights
The billionaire is leading corporate America’s latest assault on working people.
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The QE theory of everything
How the $30 trillion quantitative easing experiment reshaped our world – from Brexit to the dominance of Big Tech.
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Esther Ghey: “The internet unleashed horrific things”
The mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey on how to protect children online.
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Ending hate on social media will cost billions”
The first woman on Facebook’s board – and the co-author of Lean In – on Hamas’s 7 October attack and…
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Are you ready for Elon Musk to read your mind?
For stroke victims and those who are paralysed, devices that can interpret thoughts are a lifeline. But should Big Tech…
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Elon Musk’s death drive
The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
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The techno-optimist fallacy
Robert Skidelsky is right to warn about the delusions of our tech overlords – but his critique of Silicon Valley…
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Are governments finally pushing back against Big Tech?
Lawsuits filed against Meta by more than 40 US states are the first of their kind against a social media…
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