The Luddite

Computers are general-purpose machines capable of doing many simple tasks very quickly.

In 2013, the late great Mark Fisher wrote an essay titled Exiting the Vampire Castle.

Guest posts are not substantially edited by nor do they necessarily represent the views of The Luddite, though we do exercise discretion in which we publish.

Guest posts are not substantially edited by nor do they necessarily represent the views of The Luddite, though we do exercise discretion in which we publish.

No imagining of a futuristic utopia is complete without colonizing space.

Section 230, the law protecting charmingly outdated "interactive computer services" from liability for third party content, is currently being litigated.

Zoom was the darling of COVID lockdowns.

In the last decade, it has become clear to even the least online among us that a few tech companies have far too much power over our society.

This is the second post in the Attention Economy series.

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In 2021, the company formerly known as Facebook announced their intention to focus on The Metaverse, an obviously stupid idea.

Substack was founded on the idea that there is, as Vox put it, "a deceptively simple way to make it in the media business: Write a newsletter and convince thousands of people to pay you for it."

Paul Graham is probably the single most influential investor in tech.

Elon Musk's ownership and comical mismanagement of Twitter is an opportunity to question a model of the internet in which it is possible for one deranged lunatic to purchase our de facto public square.

This is the third post in the Attention Economy series.