Welcome to RETURN

Where tech aligns with the priorities of people who know our destiny is about more than sitting back and letting technology happen to us. We firmly believe in securing our digital sovereignty in a way that keeps life free, fruitful, and fully human.

Unfortunately, when you look around, you see the opposite: more centralization, greater alienation, more profound degradation, and obsessive cancellation. In most of our lives, tech is now primarily used to onboard us into a cyber enclosure where our hard-won form of government doesn’t apply. This top-down system is designed to forcibly remake the globe in its image, no matter the cost.

The worst is yet to come without a renaissance of competence, conviction, and trust. Our human identity is at stake. And that’s why what we publish at RETURN is part of a larger project, building the community and constituency we need to reclaim our digital destiny.

Join the fight

When you sign up for a free subscription, you’ll receive access to our archive of award-winning content, along with a weekly newsletter.

Paid subscribers will receive exclusive weekly content from some of the best writers in the industry, covering topics and people you won’t find anywhere else. You’ll find stories about technologies and ideas like

• The rise of AI

• New tools for privacy and decentralization

• Crypto and web3

• Digital sovereignty

• Network states

We also publish product reviews and exclusive interviews with the builders and investors who are putting the users back in control of technology.

Founding members will get all of the above, plus exclusive invites to online and IRL events and gatherings.

For those who want even more RETURN, our Shop page offers a print subscription that contains exclusive content that’s either not in the newsletter or is paywalled. We also offer individual print issues, merchandise, and other ways to get more involved in the RETURN community.

When you support RETURN, you’ll also be directly supporting a team of journalists with decades of experience covering the industry, and enabling us to offer perspective, analysis, and important context that’s free from corporate directives, advertorials, or virtue signaling.

We hope you’ll join us in charting a new path for what’s possible in tech journalism.

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