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    Facebook’s metaverse megalomania reflects a revulsion for humanity

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    24 October 2021

    “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…

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    Is Learning to Code fit for purpose?

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    9 August 2021

    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.…

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

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    24 June 2021

    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…

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    David Cameron’s tech utopia

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    2 June 2021

    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.…

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    The Mood Police: when Wellness and Wokeness collide

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    12 March 2021

    So you thought you’d broken the ice with that quick chat at Costa this morning with the new hire – but your wristband has buzzed and now the human resources manager wants you to call them urgently. You’ve been too assertive, they warn. …

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    The Rise and Fall of Joi Ito: Jeffrey Epstein’s tech networker who seduced Silicon Valley

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    15 September 2019

    Have you ever sat through a “thought leadership” seminar that was nothing but platitudes? …

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