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My piece this week explores how a patchwork of Asian economies from Hokkaido to Gujarat stacks up as an alternative to China for global manufacturers. Whether it works in practice is a test of both cross-border business and a nascent geopolitical order. economist.com/business/2023/…

Here she is!

This is very good - an inevitable symptom of the attention economy

UK workers already provide around 8 billion unpaid hours of this work every year theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

Czech-speaking friends: A short interview with me in Vogue (!) is now online. The full version will be published in the January issue, which will be on stands in December. vogue.cz/clanek/vogue-l…

Just published: 'Space Agency: Automation, Autonomy, and Acid Astronautics'. A strange and sprawling little essay on drugs, space travel, TESCREALism, anthropoforming, and other fun things: meiner.de/space-agency.h…

Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out... Pre-order here: amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empire…