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The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years ago, although the origins of chess are uncertain.The earliest form of chess possibly originated from India and then spread to Persia and then subsequently...

Pokemon and The Technological Organism — Part 1The ubiquity of technology in modern life is something we speak about frequently and are all aware of to varying degrees. We have augmented our individual...

Cloudflare cuts services for Nazi recruiting-ground 8chanOn 3 August, a young white man carrying a Romanian-built semi-automatic rifle entered a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people, mostly of hispanic descent....

“What do you mean ‘the otaku holds the key?’”With thanks to Fire WaterThe web is not merely a tool of democracy: it’s a tool of radical democracy. Civilisation as a whole is designed to take us, with each...

Peter Thiel and the Relationship of a Monopoly to Innovation“A Debate with Peter Thiel (Who is Not Present): Part 2”In the second part of our debate-which-is-not with Peter Thiel, we move on from our non-interview,...

A Debate with Peter Thiel (Who is Not Present)In this article, Jerome Ambrose conducts an interview, which in its own due course becomes a debate, with PayPal, Palantir and Founders Fund founder, philanthropist and...

Is the Duma just posturing, or is a Great Firewall of Russia possible?Google searching for a “Free Internet”. Credit: ShutterstockAs more and more economic, social and political activities have moved online, the...

Spin-doctors have worked on this story for two years now. A closer look at the corruptible incorruptible Social Credit system.The more gratuitous potshots we take at China, the less we choose to see behind the...

The advent of the deep-fake is enough to make all but the most trenchant of pro-techs into digital conservatives.We have reached a point in our postmodern condition in which our ironisation of all viewpoints has...

This is certainly not Mozambiquan artist Ngwenya Malangatana’s impression of the vulnerable public interest being devoured by the febrile forces of misinformation. Malangatana, “Untitled, 1967”There is a new and...

It is now more than a full year since Petro, the world’s first state-backed cryptocurrency solution, was first mooted by the Maduro administration as a gesture of economic heroism addressed to the peoples of...

Credit Image: Pixabay (picture modified by the author)In August 2018 the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (UN GGE) held their second session on autonomous weapons systems in Geneva. The delegation examined...

Sailing the epistemological ocean, we are all bound to be seasick from time to time.We last spoke about Metamodernism a year ago, and it feels considerably longer and shorter than that, for a year is often more and...

To our readers, a letter for 2019.As the year comes to a close, it is time for the Wonk Bridge editorial to string our community’s work together. This ambitious (or desperate) task, to place it all into context, is a...

Wonk Bridge Presents — The Wonk Bridge Holiday Reading ReviewFrom videoblocks.comPart of Wonk Bridge’s new “Reading List” seriesIs there any greater time to curl up in the warm with a good book as your...

Writing in “Island of Bali”, Miguel Covarrubias stated to the effect that the presence of romanticism and prostitution within a given society is inversely proportional to the ease of interpersonal communication...

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons and Swamibu Flickr (modified by the author)Engineering State-in-the-Loop Legal Responsibility for Fully Autonomous Weapons SystemsAs the U.S., the U.K., Russia, China, South Korea, and...

The screen flickers, it dies. You were in the middle of presenting your latest product to a potential buyer. Your pitch was nice, your slide-deck fantastic. None of this matter anymore. It reboots, with a terrifying...

Mark Zuckerberg’s very long day in DC and Macron’s WIRED interview provide contrasting approaches to disruptive innovationFacing the firing squadWashingtonThe week of 9 April saw two important case studies on the...

There is nothing that money buys so much as attention; whether it’s the sale of da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi for $450,000,000, or the tale of Bitcoin crashing and enjoying yet another phoenixian rebirth, nothing so...