Media

Kosinski's fable about Chance the gardener—a man whose total blankness is mistaken for profound wisdom—is one of the twentieth century's sharpest satires of how institutions project meaning onto surfaces. For anyone dire…

The shift from atoms to bits as the fundamental decentralising force. When information becomes digital, the costs of copying, distributing and transforming it fall to zero. Industries built on the scarcity of physical ca…

Every communications medium follows a cycle: it is born open and decentralised, matures, and ends up concentrating into monopolies or oligopolies. The telephone, radio, television, cinema — all followed the same pattern.…