Anthropology

The Tribe Has Wi-Fi: Why the Internet Recreated the Bronze Age

The early internet was sold to us as a triumph of Enlightenment values: a frictionless marketplace of ideas; a global coffeehouse where facts would politely elbow superstition aside, democracy would flourish, and everyone would finally admit you were right all along. What we actually built looks less like a salon

Anthropology

The Folklore of the Firewall: Cybersecurity as Modern Myth

We used to tell stories about monsters that lived in the woods. Now we tell stories about them living in the cloud. The vocabulary has changed, no more demons or witches, just “malware” and “threat actors”, but the moral is the same: there are invisible forces out there, and they