I WAS BORN at eleven in the morning. My Dad was back at work the next day, seeing patients. I never heard him speak of it as a loss. A man’s contribution to a newborn was measured in the reliability of his income, and by that measure my father was exemplary. He was a...
I USED TO commute weekly between Brisbane and Sydney for work. Early morning flights, airport lounges, hotel rooms, back-to-back meetings. At the time, I wore the exhaustion and frequent flyer status like a badge of honour. It made me feel important. Needed. Chosen....
IN 1971, ECONOMIST and psychologist Herbert A. Simon warned that a ‘wealth of information creates a poverty of attention’, laying the foundations for what we now call attention economics. Writing about the scarcity of attention in an ‘information-rich world’, Simon...
WE'VE ALL BEEN there. You’ve just walked through the front door after a gruelling day, and your partner makes a passing comment about the shoes you left in the hallway. Or maybe it’s a few un-wiped crumbs left on the kitchen counter. Suddenly, your heart rate spikes,...
LOUIS THEROUX'S NEW documentary Inside the Manosphere has brought renewed attention to a digital ecosystem that many parents, teachers and young people already sense is there, even if they do not always have the language for it. It shows how online spaces that present...
