Artificial Intelligence
The Audience We Never Invited
We built the internet for people. Now machines are reading it, writing to it, and increasingly reading what other machines have written. The audience we never invited is already here.
Digital Culture
Technology
Old Components
An eleven-year-old PC is still doing the job. So why does Windows think it has become too old? A small investigation into technology, money, obsolescence and the strange moment when “old” becomes “not good enough.”
Technology
The Smile Test
It took the Norwegian government weeks to issue my passport. Upwork wasn't convinced. What followed was a surprisingly ordinary experience that left me wondering how much of ourselves we now have to surrender simply to log in.
Digital Culture
The Invisible Cities: The City of Gifts
RABAGAS enters the world of livestream economies — a digital city built on attention, status, and human connection. From virtual roses and ranking systems to agencies and invisible labour, this is a journey into one of the internet’s fastest-growing communities.
Technology
The Machines Reading Between Us
Every day, millions of people publish content online believing they are communicating with other humans. But before most information reaches a person, it has already passed through a world of crawlers, algorithms, indexes and artificial intelligence systems.