No Sacred Cows

Scepticism served medium rare

Category: Digital Absurdities

  • The Robot Made Me Do it. I Blame Musk.

    There was a time when ordering a meal involved an exchange between two human beings. One stated what one wished to eat, another pretended to be interested, and eventually something resembling it arrived. The system was not perfect. It depended upon memory, goodwill, language, competence and, occasionally, even eye contact, all notoriously unreliable technologies. Fortunately,…

  • Tattooed Eyebrows, Vegan Dogs, and the Heat Death of Thought

    Looking through my crystal ball… Democracies will erode under the weight of attention spans shorter than a hamster’s. The planet will heat, then hiccup, then wheeze, then expire, because the best we can do is redesign shampoo bottles to save the turtles. And we will still waste time arguing over the colour. Eventually, we might…