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Working class. As the great historian of labour E. P. Thompson put it, ‘Class is a relationship. Not a thing.’ That is, class is mistaken for a noun, like horse, or house, but class doesn’t exist in its own right. It isn’t a thing. And it isn’t a natural phenomenon – like gravity. In an equal society, class would not exist. Social division is relat

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

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

The word Luddite still means an old-fashioned type who is anti-progress. But the Luddites of the early 19th century were not against progress; they were against exploitation.

Men do seem to think that a woman can be manmade, perhaps because a woman has been a commodity, a chattel, a possession, an object, for most of history.

The technology to change the world for the better is the technology that is in place right now. It’s the best of times and the worst of times. Dystopia or Utopia? Nothing could be simpler. Nothing could be harder.

We have signed up to levels of surveillance dictators could only dream about – and struggle to enforce. And we’ve done it freely, willingly, actually without noticing, in the name of connectivity and ‘sharing’.

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.

We function as a whole or not at all. The web of life is real.