Archive - Future Proof

What's going to happen to digital media in 2025?

Predictions! Featuring: my annual attempt to get people to pay for a subscription

Dec 23 •

The Erosion of Copyright: does Stake.com show we've given up on protecting IP?

ALSO: a new podcast episode about the ideology of Luigi Mangione

Dec 17 •

Cinematic Stagnation: are movies stuck in an IP doom loop?

This week, people on social media began to notice something interesting (and scary).

Dec 11 •

OnlyFans, and the media's parasociality vortex

Sophie Rain made $43m on OnlyFans last year – how?

Dec 3 •

Observing the Observer mess

And a little on Bluesky.

Dec 2 •

November 2024

Bluesky is just methadone Twitter

ALSO: Some thoughts on how D*nald T*ump won

Nov 13 •

October 2024

Donald Trump, Joe Rogan and the sh*t-post spiral of the US election

Donald Trump is ignoring my digital media advice: will the gamble pay-off?

Oct 29 •

"What happened to YouTubers?": young men, power, and how to save them

Captain Cook, arriving in New Holland (the 18th century name for what is now Australia) in 1770, remarked in his journal of the strange equanimity of…

Oct 11 •

Vertical Insanity: how the UK press is reshaping in strange ways

I’ve been on holiday the past week in Italy, so have been scrabbling like a madman, before and after, to catch-up on work.

Oct 3 •

September 2024

Telegram and the "publisher" double standard

ALSO: The Spectator, finally, finds a buyer

Sep 10 •

August 2024

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