Unitree’s Robots on America’s Got Talent: Who Owns Technological Imagination?
A three-minute performance on America’s Got Talent recently travelled far beyond the television stage. Eight humanoid robots from Unitree Robotics entered mid-routine,... Read more.
AI and Modern Wars: How the 2026 US‑Israeli Strikes Rewired the Kill Chain
War has always been a theatre of speed, strategy and chaos but today, the performers are changing. No longer confined to generals, pilots and analysts, artificial... Read more.
The Billion-Dollar API: Trump’s Board of Peace and the Monetisation of Sovereignty
Imagine global politics not as a grand marble hall full of flags and translators but as a login screen. Username. Password. Payment tier selected. That’s the thought... Read more.
Taiwanese Disease, Formosan Flu: Central Bank as Information Gatekeeper
If an economy were a body and its policies were cells, then the rumoured “Formosan flu” afflicting Taiwan might be best diagnosed not with a stethoscope but... Read more.
Making Sense of REF, Impact and Creative Outputs Through the Infosphere
In the UK higher education landscape, the Research Excellence Framework (better known as the REF) plays a major role in shaping how research quality is understood.... Read more.
Nothing Beats a Metadata Holiday: Hashtags, Memes and the Accidental Information Science of Jet2
What began as commercial ephemera (an advert produced to shift package holidays) has mutated into cultural capital, a memetic passport to viral belonging. I want... Read more.
When the Gates Open: Ghost Month and the Hauntings of the Web
At its core, Ghost Month is about infrastructures of connection. The gates of the underworld are said to swing open, allowing for traffic (spiritual, emotional,... Read more.
Why Not the Pub? Rethinking UK Bars as Accessible Learning Environments
This isn’t a manifesto to turn every UK pub into a coworking space. I’m not here to replace crisps with coursework or suggest that anyone swap pints for PowerPoint.... Read more.
Dangling in the Sky: A Thought Experiment About Fear, Reality and Letting Go
We live in a time where information is everything but it’s also everything everywhere all at once. We get dizzy trying to figure out what’s real, what’s fake... Read more.
The Holy API: Ritual, Protocol and Papal Smoke
Every few decades, a curious thing happens in Vatican City: thousands of people turn their eyes to a chimney. And when the smoke is white, the world knows: Habemus... Read more.
