Digital Frontier #4
230 x 300 mm, 128 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
Published since 2024
Founder: Josh Hewes
Editor: Sophia Epstein
Design: Charlotte Cripps
‘Our future decoded’
Offering itself as ‘a physical artefact from the digital world’, Digital Frontier does just what you might imagine it to. Born of the tech-focused, media and events company of the same name, DF aims to dig deep into how tech is both rapidly developing and tangibly influencing the ways in which we live our lives.
This glitchy fourth issue, themed ‘Echoes’, explores technology's relationship between history and the future, as editor Sophie Epstein writes: ‘I've been struck by the ways tech is being used to bring back the past. And not in just the nostalgia-driven revivals but a kind of collective cultural déjà vu. We're trying to recapture history when we should be learning from it.
Inside: using AI to decode a Pompeiian fresco, visualising dreams, stones as the OG bitcoin, France's sexy 1980s Minitel network, racial biases in AI image-making, and inside the internet's latest subculture of ‘gooning’.
On the Journal:
At Work With editor Sophia Epstein: ‘Print is just everything, isn’t it? We’ve got a website too, but nothing compares to the feeling of holding something weighty in your hands, turning physical pages, it’s a whole different experience and I don’t think that’s just a romantic notion, I think people—even digital-tech-loving people—want that.’
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