Technology
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The devil in the dating apps
Modern technology does not encourage long-term relationships but a spiral of swiping
The common thread of progress
Textile abundance has underpinned the modern world
AI will not satisfy
Human desires tend to be rooted in the human