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ForkLog 150 14.07.2025

Silicon Tanks: Evgeny Morozov, prophet of digital scepticism

While Silicon Valley promised peace, fellowship and democracy via apps, the Belarusian scholar Evgeny Morozov warned that technology is not magic but a tool of power. A decade ago he was branded an alarmist; today his books are read as manuals for the digital world. Why Morozov’s critique of “solutionism” and “internet-centrism” feels timelier than […]

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ForkLog 215 03.07.2025

Silicon Tanks: Nancy Fraser’s feminist view of digital capitalism

“Silicon Tanks” is a ForkLog series profiling the intellectuals, scholars and visionaries who, in our view, have shaped the internet and digital finance—or, conversely, have subjected them to critique. The subject of today’s piece is the philosopher Nancy Fraser, who coined the concept of “cannibal capitalism” to describe the link between technological progress, Big Tech, […]

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ForkLog 157 02.07.2025

The Srinivasan–Buterin Democratic Republic

In 2022 entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan unveiled the Network State, a concept that fuses an alternative vision of statehood with blockchain technology. In just three years, the idea has moved off the page and into the physical world. In this ForkLog piece, we explore the historical roots of the Network State, the launch of the Network […]

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ForkLog 45 19.06.2025

Innokenty’s Game

Is digital immortality attainable—and if so, to what end? What role does blockchain play in a posthumanist utopia? Must artificial intelligence know both joy and suffering? Peter Bell, CEO of DAO Builders, and ForkLog’s commercial director, Aleksandr Aremefe—the unwitting protagonists of the second instalment of Innokenty’s Dream—set out to answer these seemingly simple, yet in […]

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ForkLog 744 10.06.2025

Silicon Tanks: Nick Land, the right face of accelerationism

The British philosopher Nick Land began his career as a careful reader and bold interpreter of 20th-century leftist thinkers, anarchically breaking the usual bounds of academic tradition. He is now a supporter of “neoreaction,” an apologist for technocracy and surveillance capitalism, who regards Peter Thiel as the greatest thinker of the present day. How that […]

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ForkLog 21 23.05.2025

Innokentiy’s Dream

Does digital consciousness already exist, or is it merely an illusion nurtured by those who spend too much time online? Who will enslave whom first: humans or machines? And why do we frame this relationship in terms of power and violence at all? ForkLog founder Anatolii Kaplan and DAO Builders co‑founder Denis Smirnov debated this […]

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ForkLog 53 01.04.2025

“Ether will replace gold”

Disclaimer This material is purely for entertainment. It is April 1st — the professional holiday of those who believe everything they read online. April 1st is the ideal day to ask about crypto’s future not of financial analysts, but of the heavens and spirits. Seizing the moment, Lina Valitova, with the help of burning wormwood […]

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ForkLog 75 13.02.2025

A metaverse of metaverses—and other AR/VR projects you may have missed

Augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) continue to reshape the digital economy as they converge with blockchain technologies. Metaverses, game projects and Web3-based platforms are forging new models for virtual-asset ownership, content monetisation and online interaction. 2024 brought several notable developments: investment into GameFi, progress in metaverse infrastructure, the launch of high-performance blockchains for AR/VR […]

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ForkLog 25 11.02.2025

Do nothing: finding a way out of digital hell

The blockchain industry is a place where everyone is endlessly busy. We watch price action and listing announcements, parse government minutes and analyst forecasts. But how do you know when to stop and step off the digital wheel? In an interview for the new monthly digest FLMonthly the founders of doNONdo. explain why doing nothing […]

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ForkLog 60 11.12.2024

The non-fungible bubble: how NFTs inoculated the industry against greed

In a comparatively short time, NFTs went from glittering innovation to a largely marginal investment tool. Mass-minted collections, rampant speculation and market manipulation did the rest: by 2024, analysts estimate that 96% of collections were “dead”. Lina Valitova examines what remained after the NFT bubble burst. Why did the bubble inflate? In March 2023, staff […]

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ForkLog 28 06.09.2024

The truth about Durovgate: a ForkLog primer in conspiracy

Julia Vavilova, who accompanied Pavel Durov on his trip, is said to have helped engineer the billionaire’s detention. She allegedly deliberately tagged her location during the journey so that French law enforcement could track him. Media also reported the woman’s supposed links to “Mossad,” which allegedly tasked her with handing Durov over to Western security […]

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ForkLog 13 14.08.2024

God or golem? Why AI inspires religious awe

Individuum has released a Russian translation of American writer Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book «Бог, человек, животное, машина. Поиски смысла в расколдованном мире». With the publisher’s permission, we present an excerpt explaining how a seemingly odd religious observation by Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, has been clarified by the rise of modern artificial intelligence. Data: Individuum. […]

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