Technology
Analysis of AI, semiconductors, cyber operations, software systems, and digital infrastructure as instruments of strategic competition.
The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research
The move from Schedule I to Schedule III promises to unleash cannabis research, but pharmaceutical companies face a deeper challenge: a plant that resists the very methods the industry uses to prove medicines work.
The Six-Character Skeleton Key
A booking code designed in the 1960s still guards the travel identities of billions. The Amadeus vulnerability exposed what the aviation industry has long avoided admitting: its reservation systems were built for a world without hackers, and patching cannot fix architectural assumptions.
The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling
The Association for Computing Machinery will make all publications freely accessible by 2026. The decision exposes how concentrated market power created its own opposition—and how the economics of scholarly communication are being rewritten by the institutions that once funded their own...
The Chokepoint Doctrine
The Apprentice Paradox: Why Tech Leaders Refuse to Replace Junior Developers
Tech leaders are resisting AI replacement of junior developers despite proven automation capabilities. The reason reveals a structural truth about how organisations actually produce knowledge—and why eliminating entry-level roles would destroy the pipeline that creates senior talent.
The $1.5 Trillion Bet on a Future That May Never Arrive
Tesla's market valuation embeds hundreds of billions in robotaxi expectations. The gap between what markets believe and what technology can deliver reveals how investors process radical uncertainty—and why they may be wrong.
The Spy Who Couldn't Disappear: HUMINT in the Digital Age
Human intelligence tradecraft has survived every technological revolution from the telegraph to the satellite. The smartphone may be different. In a world where everyone leaves a digital trail from birth, the ancient art of espionage faces its most fundamental transformation.
The Cartography of Nowhere
The Great Repatriation
The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor
European health ministries have traded data sovereignty for operational capacity, signing contracts with intelligence-linked analytics firms that GDPR cannot constrain. The legal architecture was designed for a threat that no longer exists.
The Invisible Colleague: Second-Order Consequences of AI Agents in the Workforce
As AI agents move from augmenting human work to replacing it, the visible efficiency gains obscure deeper structural shifts: fractured career pipelines, gamified hiring systems, new forms of political dependency, and the quiet collapse of institutional knowledge transfer.
