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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a weekly column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder and editorial director of Sifted, the FT-backed site for European startups, and founder of FT Forums, which hosts monthly meetings for senior executives.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

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  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    FIFA World Cup
    Football’s VAR is a lesson in flawed technology

    Robot linesmen are no substitute for the real thing and offer a warning against using inventions for their own sake

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Social Media
    Elon Musk’s free speech absolutism may endanger fragile democracies

    Badly moderated social media platforms can have chilling real world effects

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    FTX shows founders can still conjure up the ‘reality distortion field’

    Investors consistently fail to drill into the hype around tech entrepreneurs such as Sam Bankman-Fried

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    The best books of the week
    FT business books: what to read this month

    The economic revolution of artificial intelligence and the communications lessons from Jeff Bezos

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Global migration
    Politicians must shout about the benefits of skilled immigration

    Rhetoric in the debate is ugly, yet US and UK voters are warming to the positive impact of incomers

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    US foreign policy
    China and the US remain locked in mutually assured co-operation

    The two nations are compelled by their consumers to collaborate as well as compete

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Robotics
    Forget the humanoids — it’s industrial robots that will transform the world

    Societies need all the imagination of science fiction writers to use proven functional skills rather than replicate our own

  • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    The metaverse revolution may yet devour Meta

    Zuckerberg’s company suffers from a first mover disadvantage when it comes to owning the virtual future

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Megathreats by Nouriel Roubini — an avalanche of coming disasters

    The economist who predicted the 2008 crash warns of disturbingly plausible calamities, from climate to currency and debt crises

  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    UK industrial strategy
    Britain needs a growth strategy for the second machine age

    Rather than criticising growth-blockers, Liz Truss should be doing more to support risk-taking entrepreneurs

  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    Semiconductors
    The ‘chip choke’ on China may breathe air into semiconductor industry

    A fresh wave of global government investment might well stimulate broader innovation

  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Big tech
    The five things the tech bubble got right

    From the value of data to e-globalisation, some trends are here to stay

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    Smarter machines risk creating dumber humans

    The exciting and impressive use of new, powerful AI models could cause harm to individuals and society

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    Renewable energy
    It’s time to hit the accelerator on the energy transition

    We have the technological knowhow to combat climate change — now we need to galvanise action to use it

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    Metaverse
    The metaverse is evolving from fiction into fact

    Neal Stephenson, the novelist who coined the term, rejects the idea of a dystopian future for tech-dependent humanity

  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    Democracies must use AI to defend open societies

    Authoritarian regimes will not hesitate to misuse the technology

  • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
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    Andreessen Horowitz bets on crypto to break up Big Tech power

    Partner Chris Dixon hits out at dominance of companies that the venture capital firm played a prominent role in creating

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Social Media
    TikTok’s extraordinary rise signals a more multipolar internet

    Despite criticism as either too trivial or too threatening, the Chinese-owned platform has ‘out-blitzscaled the blitzscalers’ of Silicon Valley

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Driverless vehicles
    Intelligent cars need intelligent regulation

    The promised breakthrough in AI vehicles is on its way, but has been stuck in real world snarl-ups and legal roadblocks

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Ecommerce
    The future of global retail will be local

    Shopify’s challenge to Amazon has failed, but an Indian bid to empower small merchants is worth watching

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
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    Ottoline Leyser of UK Research and Innovation: ‘If someone disagrees with you, that is a fabulous thing’

    The botany professor on how to supercharge scientific research — and the leadership lessons we can learn from vegetables

  • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
    US & Canadian companies
    Twitter may beat Elon Musk in court and still lose

    The Delaware trial is sure to be a spectacle but outsmarting the world’s richest man will be a challenge

  • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
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    The Metaverse by Matthew Ball — a glimpse of the future

    Overhyped tech bubble or next-generation internet platform? An intriguing book that explores how the metaverse could operate

  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla cannot unsync from the politics of US-China relations

    Just as Huawei has been targeted by western security officials, Elon Musk’s cars could become a punchbag for Beijing’s spies

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