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Sebastian Payne is online editor of The Spectator. He was previously a Data Reporter and blogger at The Daily Telegraph.

Technology has entered every corner of our lives, but is it fundamentally changing human nature? Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

To Save Everything, Click Here, by Evgeny Morozov — review

30 March 2013
To Save Everything, Click Here Evgeny Morozov

Allen Lane, pp.432, £18, ISBN: 9781610391382

Technology may not have taken over the world, but it is making quite good progress in taking over our lives. Thirty years ago, receiving a phone call was the height… Read more

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Geek Gods

30 March 2013

Most children grow up worshipping footballers or pop stars. My idol was Robert X. Cringley — a four-eyed alpha nerd, driving a red 1950s Ford T-Bird with a Macintosh computer… Read more

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Cult horror

23 February 2013

The Room is an awful film. Plot lines are picked up and forgotten in seconds, stock footage is repeated continuously, actors and names change without explanation, doors are never closed… Read more

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Satisfaction guaranteed

1 December 2012

‘How’re you doing in the cheap seats? They’re not that cheap, though, that’s the problem,’ said Mick Jagger as he launched into the first of the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary… Read more

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The great British wind scam

24 November 2012

Almost everybody agrees that wind turbines are ugly and inefficient. But you’d think that the government, if it must persist in subsidising renewable energy, would do everything it could to… Read more