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BURNING CHROME | 2026: The year tech promises grow teeth
Less about robots taking over your job tomorrow, more about whether the software and the wires underneath can even hold together.
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BURNING CHROME | Christmas at the edge of 2026: A year-end reflection
2025 was not defined by a single crisis but by convergence. Political instability, technological acceleration, climate pressure and economic unevenness did not arrive separately. They collided.
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BURNING CHROME | December: The holiday tech spending trap
In the Philippines, many are already familiar with the bright lights and aggressive promos that close out the year, and increasingly, we are familiar with what comes after.
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BURNING CHROME | The Pinoy holiday that almost forgot the baby in the manger
This Christmas, may we remember that Christ was not born under mall lights, nor to the sound of carols piped into air-conditioned halls, but in the silence of a manger, in the company of the poor.
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BURNING CHROME | SW: Ghost signals and the voices that won’t fade
There was a time when the world didn’t tune in through fiber-optic cables or endless social media feeds, but through the static-soaked hiss of shortwave radio. Out in the provinces, DX’ers hunched over their sets; at sea, sailors leaned toward their receivers; even border guards paused to catch a drifting broadcast. Everyone twisted those stubborn…
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BURNING CHROME | Totality 1.0 — When the underground echoes in an upscale white cube
They came. They stayed. And many of them were mesmerized.
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BURNING CHROME | The internet: From information superhighway to a lonely back road
In the early 1990s, the phrase information superhighway captured the imagination of policymakers, technologists, and journalists alike. It was the rallying cry of an age when dial-up tones and clunky desktops promised a new democratic era of knowledge. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore became its unofficial salesman, declaring that a highway of information would…
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BURNING CHROME | Cyberpunk: Neon dreams, dark realities
Cyberpunk’s agenda was always to expose power. Its antiheroes are not space explorers but street-level survivors navigating systems too big to fight.
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BURNING CHROME | MiniDisc: An almost forgotten favorite
Sony envisioned the MiniDisc as the next step after the cassette Walkman, a product that had already defined a generation of music listening habits.
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BURNING CHROME | Every ‘tech bro’ wants to rule the world
The term ‘tech bro’ used to describe more than a programmer with swagger. It now represents a cultural mindset.