Politics & Economics

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system inte...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...

Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Cu...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI ...

What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an ob...

The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis...

Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House o...

From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing J...

A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over ...