The long read: The world’s biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down – but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds of problems that are vexing other tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter
The Last Mile
Living without the Internet is a reality for the vast majority of people on the Earth. With Facebook and Google treating connection speeds and bandwidth like disposable cutlery, you can hardly guess why they’re having such a terrible time continuing to grow their userbase around the world. The problem is the infrastructure isn’t available. The “last mile,” as it is often referred to, is sub-par in most parts of the world.
The Internet Economy
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.
The Internet Transition
The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.
The Internet Transition
The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.
High altitude connectivity: The next chapter
Today nearly 4 billion people globally do not have access to the Internet. It’s why Facebook, along with many other companies and governments, is investing heavily to address the three key ba…
I've been traveling the world for 6 months, and these are the apps I can't live without
As Business Insider's international correspondent, I use a ton of different apps to make travel as efficient and seamless as possible. Here are my most used apps and why they're so invaluable.
All Internet Roads Lead Back to 2014
Ten years ago, developments in commerce, activism, and influencer culture coalesced, and our contemporary concept of “being online” was born
How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New
In the last few weeks I’ve written about how Elon Musk’s “changes” to how Twitter is running have done an amazing job convincing people to join Mastodon. And I’ve also…
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X
The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots:The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff… pic.twitter.com/G87qsuPHxN— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 9, 2025
