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In reality, Big Tech is about global reach, global control, and a business model that seeks global power without local responsibility.

The West values action – and in the West we assume that the opposite of active is passive; it isn’t. The opposite of action is contemplation.

The apostles of the AI future are eager to greet the end of the biological body (Ray Kurzweil, Max More), and an end to living on Planet Earth (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel). This has been criticised as the typical male Freedom Fantasy. A world without physical responsibilities where we leave our mess behind us. But really, it is just a version of Heaven

Reality is not made of parts but formed of patterns.

Acceleration has been the keyword in our world since the Industrial Revolution. Machines use time differently to humans. Computers are not time-bound. As biological beings, humans are subject to time, most importantly our allotted span: we die.

Getting rid of what the great economist and anthropologist David Graeber called ‘bullshit jobs’ is not anything to mourn.

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

We don’t all have to make groundbreaking discoveries. Women don’t have to be ‘the best’. Women need to be everywhere, in every role, every workforce – and not at entry level, not at part-time and piecework level, but right in the centre of it all – and in management, taken seriously alongside their male colleagues, not worrying about what will I we

Unfortunately. I have to write in series, whereas the great strength of the brain is parallel processing.