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Our food ecosystem is vulnerable to digital assault. We would last about three days
Modern inventory systems have come close to perfecting the just-in-time ideal, whether delivering rubber window wiper blades to the manufacturing
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Patently Obvious — At Amazon it's Best Not to Think Outside the Cage
Robots will probably kill us all one day — but first, they’ll put us in cages. A truly forward-thinking entrepreneur
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Cover Story: Who let the Nazis in? Our social media problem is deeper than live streamed atrocities
Nobody likes Nazis. Even Nazis aren’t super keen to be associated with them, which is why euphemisms like “ethno-nationalist” and
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Digital minimalism is a real threat to tech giants
It seems likely that regulators will come for the tech giants. The Australian Taxation Office has already wrestled Apple, Google,
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Why Audio Is Bucking Publishing’s Downward Trend
There hasn’t been much good news out of publishing and media since the Great Recession, but one segment, recorded audio,
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Men, Sucking
So, that escalated quickly. One tweet and one Facebook post were enough to flood my mentions and DMs with a
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Russian Hacking: Facebook didn’t do it, nobody saw them, you can’t prove anything
Facebook’s Chief Security Officer has admitted that thousands of politically motivated ads from fake accounts originating in Russia ran on
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Social Media Confirms It. People (and their politics) Are The Worst
I blame the comment threads. Whether on YouTube, Facebook, a widely unread blog or the seething, dissociated hive mind of
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Marriage Debate Marketing, Where New and Old Methods Collide
In jiu jitsu you never fight your enemy’s fight. You never match strength to strength. You avoid the line of
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7000 illegal streams later, Mayweather v McGregor Suggests a Looming Media Smackdown
Maybe you should have just gone to the pub. Millions of punters poured into bars all over the world on
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Biotechnology: Longer life spans will open up vast new markets
In Sean Williams’ short story Among the Beautiful Living Dead, the super-rich have gifted themselves eternal life, at the cost
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Man and Machine: Will Elon Musk change what it means to be human?
Bill Gates thinks we overestimate how much can be achieved in one year, and underestimate how much will change in
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Cover Story: The quiet catastrophe, then reinvention of book publishing
My first year as a working writer I made a hundred and thirty-five dollars and ate a lot of generic
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Google's Neo-Nazi Racist Porno Hate Terror Makes Terrific Click Bait
It’s not a good look for your macrobiotic crunchy granola-infused omni-sensitive global media brand when it gets plastered across a
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Cover Story — The Watson Cancer Story IBM Doesn’t Talk About
IBM tells a nice story about Watson and oncology in India. The country has a paucity of oncologists — roughly
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Gerry Harvey, Amazon and the rent-seekers’ lament
You’d imagine a bloke who had just trousered a quarter of a billion bucks would be in a passably good
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COVER STORY: On Nauru the fault lines between old and new media are less obvious than they appear
Few industries have been as fundamentally — even ruinously — disrupted by digital technology as the news media. The transition
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Democracy sausage sizzles online as election unfolds
#Democracysausage was probably Twitter’s fault. Switching out the #ausvotes emoji for a tasty looking little snag on a delicious pixel
