Jamie Bartlett
The Telegraph
United Kingdom
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Our Faustian bargain with technology companies is slowly killing democracy
They’ve turned our psychological weaknesses into a new information ecosystem, and now it has escaped their control → Read More
Here’s the real danger that Facebook, Google and the other tech monopolies pose to our society
Most people fear and loathe monopolies because they dominate their category, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the threat they hold. → Read More
Return of the city-state
Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they won't make it to the end of the century → Read More
Is this Portuguese eco-village a 21st-century utopia?
Yes, it has free love, vegan food, Wi-Fi, but it also has unchallenged assumptions, ramshackle housing and a questionable belief system. → Read More
After the Manchester bombing, what should be the fate of Prevent?
The aftermath of every terror attack now takes familiar form. → Read More
Radicals Chasing Utopia
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw Within each society are sub-culturesgroups that believe that our problems require radical solutions. Journalist Jamie Bartlett, an expert on these groups, takes readers into the strange worlds of… → Read More
Hacking the NHS is easy - ransomware is freely available on the dark net
The cyber attack that is currently crippling the NHS is a classic example of a so-callled “ransomware” strike. → Read More
Social media's response to the #WestminsterAttack has exposed our grisly addiction to digital gratification
I was commuting into central London on the morning of 7 July 2005. → Read More
Across Europe with Tommy Robinson: inside the new wave of anti-immigration protest coming soon to Britain
The former English Defence League leader is part of an international network of far-Right activism given new life by the European refugee crisis → Read More
Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net. → Read More
The moral dark side of reporting on the dark net
The best way to understand how an illegal online drugs market works is to buy something from it. That, however, creates fairly obvious difficulties, as Jamie Bartlett explains. → Read More
Transhumanists are on a quest to discover eternal life. Is the citizen science they use the future of technology?
Immortality aside, DIY "bio-hacking" could provide solutions to everyday problems, despite the risks involved → Read More
Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net. → Read More
Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net. → Read More
Why do 'radical' politicians have so little to say about the future?
Computers are going to be putting more and more people out of work. Why isn't anyone in Westminster interested? → Read More
It's not hard to work out why Jeremy Corbyn is so popular
Corbyn has a lot in common with all political radicals: a simple message and a clear position → Read More
Meet the tiny, fringe parties who never win anything
The political parties of the future have to start from somewhere, so bravo to the fringe candidates who plug away → Read More
How do you stop Twitter trolls? Unleash a robot swarm to troll them back
A German art collective is targeting misogynist trolls online by bombarding them with patronising automated messages when they use sexist words → Read More
The blog that proves Islamic State jihadists were listening to Edward Snowden
Islamic extremists are locked in a digital arms race with our intelligence services, and they know how to stay anonymous online. So how do we catch them? → Read More
You can't prevent terrorism by singling out Muslims
Creating a programme for one group of people will only turn more people away from wider society → Read More