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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, 19 May, 2022
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Algorithmic pricing is both efficient and absurd

    Given consumers are fixated on rapidly rising inflation, price-setting mechanisms should come under greater scrutiny

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Technology sector
    The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis

    It may be no bad thing that the rules of the game are changing for venture-backed start-ups

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Fake news
    Only free societies can combat disinformation

    Naive democratic governments allow hostile regimes to exploit open technological platforms to peddle corrosive lies

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Space industry
    Robots in rockets outperform ‘spam in a can’ astronauts

    The cost of launching humans into space is hard to justify as unmanned trips get faster, cheaper and safer

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Twitter Inc
    Elon Musk’s brainpower could help Twitter but not in the way he thinks

    The company needs assistance with its business model rather than with free speech

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    It makes sense to engage Putin’s tech exodus

    Few nationalities have had such an outsized impact on the sector; the latest wave of emigrants should be welcomed

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Seven lessons from a late-starting entrepreneur

    After three decades writing about business, the FT’s innovation editor decided to get his hands dirty . . . 

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    Industrialisation of AI offers great promise and some peril

    Private companies, not universities, are pioneering artificial intelligence research and reaping almost all the gains

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Vasily Grossman
    Soviet writer Vasily Grossman and the ‘ruthless truth’ of war

    The clear-eyed chronicler of the darkest days of 20th-century history is startlingly relevant for the war in Ukraine

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Telegram Messaging
    War in Ukraine underlines the need for Telegram to protect its users

    The messaging app is popular with libertarians and dissidents but may be susceptible to Kremlin pressure

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    The truth about war is messy — just read Wikipedia

    Crowdsourcing truth does not sound like the best idea in partisan times but disputed entries on the Ukraine invasion are factual

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    Government of Russia
    Russia’s digital iron curtain will fail

    Putin’s war aims in isolating the country from the global internet will do lasting damage to its tech ambitions

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine is winning the information war against Russia

    Zelensky has mobilised civil society while Putin’s state monopolises communication channels to spread falsehoods

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    BP to sell its stake in Russia’s state oil company Rosneft

    Russia’s attack on Ukraine could escalate from a regional conflict in cyberspace

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    War in Ukraine risks scrambling the logic of cyber security

    The country has long been ground zero in this new era of warfare — Russian hackers may just be getting started

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Innovation
    Britain’s Arpa is an ideological pet project that might yet succeed

    Despite their research prowess, UK scientists are tragically bad at turning impressive papers into sellable products

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Lunch with the FT
    David Chalmers: ‘We are the gods of the virtual worlds we create’

    The techno-philosopher on meaningful life in the metaverse, building virtual utopias and why the ‘corporatocracies’ are becoming part of our brains

  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    Arm Ltd
    Britain must boost its technological-financial complex

    The question of where Arm is refloated is critical if the UK is to become a magnet for tech companies

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Covid entrepreneurs can lead a new wave of creative destruction

    The pandemic has torn down unnecessary work infrastructure, enabling an explosion of business formation

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Semiconductors
    The scramble for semiconductors is our era’s industrial Great Game

    China and the US are battling over tech manufacturing supremacy — capacity as well as innovation will determine who wins

  • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
    Electric vehicles
    The EV revolution needs an energy surge

    Car design may be glamorous, but complementary tech such as charging and mapping software are vital to mass adoption

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    Venture capital investment
    Smart judgment will outweigh dumb luck in the venture capital world

    Stock market headline returns may dazzle, but tech trends will trump market gyrations in the long term

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    Space exploration
    Hello, universe. Is there anyone out there?

    Astronomers eager to make contact with alien life forms should consider whether they have the right to do so

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