Contributing Editor
Christian Bertolini
Engineer and serial entrepreneur, founder of ProntoID. Writes on technology, culture and the philosophy of the connected life — first-person, sceptical of easy conclusions.
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Culture
One sale, to ourselves
BigBucks, our new t-shirt brand, has a live website and one sale, to ourselves. I’m an engineer with no marketing experience and no promotion budget, and this monthly series records how I try to sell it, with the real n…
Culture
The transhumanism nobody counted
We were told transhumanism would come with implants and upgrades. I think it came with a phone in my hand and a voice that answers back, and because …
Culture
Project Blue Beam arrived as a subscription
In 1994 a Quebec writer claimed NASA would stage the Second Coming with satellites, holograms and voices beamed into our heads. Thirty years on, most…
Lifestyle
What the Internet Actually Knows About You (And What People Only Pretend It Does)
Everyone has heard someone claim, with great confidence, that 'they can see who's been looking at your profile.' An engineer's calm, demystifying gui…
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Real Isn't Safe: Know Your Pal and the New Pre-Date Etiquette
Photography
Consent Is a File, Not a Day
Lifestyle
The Superhero Under the Suit: BigBucks and the Shirt Only You Need to Read
Culture
The Machine That Asks: How a Software Default Became European Manners
Lifestyle
The Quiet Rooms: Why the Social Internet Is Moving Behind Garden Walls
Culture
What's the Other Hand Doing?
Culture
The Desert Was Never Sand
Culture
Something Eats Well Here
Lifestyle
The Proof Is in the Playing
Wellness
The Cornea Remembers: A Month Inside the Strange Freedom of Night Lenses
Photography
The Release Form Is the Liability: Why Paper-Based Model Releases Are a GDPR Disaster Waiting to Happen
Culture
Who Pays the Robots? The Economic Paradox at the Heart of the AI Utopia
Culture
The Field Remembers: Retrocausality, the Delayed Choice, and the Akashic Now
Culture
The Eternal Now: A Reflection on Time, Consciousness, and Being the Field
Culture
The Vicious Cycle: Doomscrolling, the Engagement Economy, and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Culture
Who Killed the Forum? How Social Feeds Replaced the Web's Most Useful Rooms
Culture
The Signal and the Noise: Why Persistence Is the Only Strategy That Matters
Lifestyle
The Quiet Mirror, Ep. 01: Thirty Years of Losing My Hair
Culture
The New Logic of Luxury
Photography
Why Digital Identity Infrastructure Is the Invisible Backbone of the Creator Economy
Culture
The Digital Ghostwriter: Can AI Wear Manolos?
Culture
Beyond the Fear-Mongering: Why Europe's Future Is Diplomatic, Not Apocalyptic
Culture
The Verified Web: How the UK's New Rules Are Reshaping the Digital Landscape for a Generation
Culture
The Digital Renaissance: What If the Social Giants Never Existed?
Culture
The Frequency of Sovereignty: Is Our Reality a Mirror of the Collective Field?
Culture
Is the Matrix Real? — Series Introduction
Culture
You Are Me in a Human Suit
Culture
Love Is the Answer
Lifestyle
Love is the Answer
Music
The Unkillable Star: Why Radio Outlasts the Algorithm
Lifestyle
The Unquiet Mind: Inside the High-Velocity Brain of an Entrepreneur
Culture
The Future of the Internet Is Human: Why Curation Will Beat the Algorithm
Culture
The Reel Revolution: Who's Really Controlling the Information Flow (and Your Brain)?
Culture
Beyond the 'Follower' Trap: Why Brands and Cities Are Reclaiming the Digital Piazza
Lifestyle
Italy, I Love You, But Your Coffee is Lagging Behind
Lifestyle
The Sound of Someone You Never Chose
Travel
The Best Coffee Shop in the World Is on a Croatian Island
Culture
The Dry Machine: Why AI-Generated Content Risks Boring Us to Death
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