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John Birmingham

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  • Our food ecosystem is vulnerable to digital assault. We would last about three days

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 8, 2019
  • Patently Obvious — At Amazon it's Best Not to Think Outside the Cage

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / May 15, 2019
  • Cover Story: Who let the Nazis in? Our social media problem is deeper than live streamed atrocities

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Apr 8, 2019
  • Digital minimalism is a real threat to tech giants

    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,

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Apr 2, 2019
  • Why Audio Is Bucking Publishing’s Downward Trend

    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,

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Apr 1, 2019
  • Men, Sucking

    Men, Sucking

    So, that escalated quickly. One tweet and one Facebook post were enough to flood my mentions and DMs with a

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 30, 2018
  • Russian Hacking: Facebook didn’t do it, nobody saw them, you can’t prove anything

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Sep 7, 2017
  • Social Media Confirms It. People (and their politics) Are The Worst

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Sep 5, 2017
  • Marriage Debate Marketing, Where New and Old Methods Collide

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Aug 31, 2017
  • 7000 illegal streams later, Mayweather v McGregor Suggests a Looming Media Smackdown

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Aug 29, 2017
  • Biotechnology: Longer life spans will open up vast new markets

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 25, 2017
  • Man and Machine: Will Elon Musk change what it means to be human?

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 19, 2017
  • Cover Story: The quiet catastrophe, then reinvention of book publishing

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 17, 2017
  • Google's Neo-Nazi Racist Porno Hate Terror Makes Terrific Click Bait

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Mar 30, 2017
  • Cover Story — The Watson Cancer Story IBM Doesn’t Talk About

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Mar 10, 2017
  • Gerry Harvey, Amazon and the rent-seekers’ lament

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Mar 2, 2017
  • COVER STORY: On Nauru the fault lines between old and new media are less obvious than they appear

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Aug 21, 2016
  • Democracy sausage sizzles online as election unfolds

    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

    John Birmingham John Birmingham / Jul 2, 2016

About

John Birmingham has published lots of books. So many that he sort of loses track of them. He wrote features for magazines in a decade before publishing He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, working for Rolling Stone, Playboy and the Long Bay Prison News amongst others. He won the National Award For Non-Fiction with Leviathan: an unauthorised biography of Sydney. He has twice won Columnist of the Year in the Magazine Publishers Awards. He posts about the impact of digital on society for Which-50.

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