There’s an interesting flaw at the heart of Olivia Wilde’s new movie, Don’t Worry, Darling, which reveals everything wrong with the ongoing culture wars. The premise of the film is simple. A 1950s housewife is living with her husband in…
My new dystopian novel Black Friday 2050, is now out! In 2050, pleasure is the drug of choice. When an accident renders Jack Preston severely dopamine deficient, he becomes immune to his sensory overload addiction. Immune to the organisations who…
Tomorrow is the release date of my novel, Black Friday 2050! Find it on pre-sale here. Check out chapter 1 below! Chapter 1 It was an afternoon like any other, and my notifications totaled two million. Hurrying inside the two…
Our universities have scrapped degrees on peace making, preferring we learn to make war. Last year, Sydney University stopped offering its Peace and Conflict masters program, one of the only degrees on peace in the country. At the time, a…
This week I had the pleasure of collaborating with Chang Che on a video essay on the Japanese concept of “Omakase,” which literally means “I’ll leave it to you.” But the word means more than that. It evokes a calculated…
For the last few weeks, Sydney has been in the start of a two-month lockdown. With nowhere else to go, I have started playing a few video games. I’ve been particularly exploring the mass-market games I usually don’t play. Chief…
Six months ago, I started making video essays for YouTube on philosophy and literature. I thought now would be a good time to look back and reflect on the progress I have made so far, and to look at the…
Long before Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, a company called Simulmatics Corporation sought to predict and control human behaviour through the analysis of big data. If Then tells the story of that company, from its humble beginnings in a tiny office…
If you watch one film about technology this year, make it this one. The Social Dilemma (Netflix) features almost every tech insider turned outsider. There’s Tristan Harris, Google’s former chief design ethicist who famously dissented over the company’s attention/addiction business…
A friend recently gave me Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The City and the Stars. On the first page, he wrote the dedication: May your path also transcend the cycles that stifle progress. The novel is about how we can trap…