Andrew Orlowski

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  • Facebook’s metaverse megalomania reflects a revulsion for humanity

    “Divine task! Immortal mission!” enthused one excited American politician in 1846.  William Gilpin was promoting a doctrine that became known as Manifest Destiny – the idea that Americans were both divinely chosen and uniquely equipped to conquer new territory, and should do so without delay. Urged on by exhortations “to animate the many hundred millions…

  • Is Learning to Code fit for purpose?

    Employers looking to hire software developers have noticed something very strange filling up their inboxes recently. Aidan Fitzpatrick, founder of one of London’s genuine technology successes Reincubate, a two times winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise, spotted it a few weeks ago. It was a new kind of job applicant.

  • Inflation will burst this tech bubble – and good riddance to its New Age cranks 

    In the early 1980s the radical German musician Blixa Bargeld was being interviewed for TV in his squat in West Berlin, yards from the Berlin Wall. “Have you been to the other side?,” asked the interviewer. “No,” replied Bargeld, his glazed eyes beginning to rotate in opposite directions. “But I have been to… The Other…

  • David Cameron’s tech utopia

    It was a confident David Willetts who addressed a meeting of like-minded Conservatives, only hours after the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.