WATCH THIS | Al Jazeera English: Why tech billionaires are quietly bankrolling europe’s far right
This documentary posted on YouTube on Dec. 16, 2025 was produced by Al Jazeera English. If you want a clear-eyed...
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BY-LINER | Lirio in performance: A portrait of the Filipino as cyborg
The text below is a slight emendation of an article I wrote in the now defunct online news outlet InterAksyon....
BURNING CHROME | Music deconstruction through technology
NOTE: This article first appeared in the July 31, 2006, issue of Tech Times, the infotech section of The Manila...
OP-ED | The false binary of anonymity online
The Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) proposal to require social media user verification rests on a familiar premise:...
SPECIAL FEATURE | It’s 2026, is the Philippines now EV ready?
Electric vehicles are no longer a speculative technology. Across Asia, they are being framed as industrial policy, climate response and...
BURNING CHROME | Multimedia: Evolution and transformation
NOTE: This article orginally came out in 2006 for RealtimeArts, a national arts magazine based in Australia. In a square...
SPECIAL FEATURE | AI data center boom: Jobs machine or energy sinkhole—and should Asia follow?
The United States is building AI data centers at a scale that now resembles heavy industry rather than digital infrastructure....
BURNING CHROME | Progressives, conservatives, and the politics of violence
The eternal battle lines between left and right are not written in the stars but in the bloodied streets of...
BURNING CHROME | As it was, when it was: The new album on Pinoy underground ’80s and the great rock ’n’ roll swindle
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN MY NOVEMBER 2006 BLOGSPOT POST. ’80s pop culture was an enigma. Thick shoulder pads...
BURNING CHROME | 2026: The year tech promises grow teeth
The hype merchants always want you to believe that the future is already here. But the truth is, the future...