Margot Halloran handles the Bulletin’s comparative essays and field reports. Her background is in trade publishing and her instinct is to disambiguate: what exactly is meant by ‘Web4’, by ‘agentic’, by ‘operating system’ in this context. She has been arguing in print for two years that the post-app internet is already partly built and that someone should describe what is shipping.

Halloran writes from Dublin. She is the contributor most likely to translate a piece of engineering jargon into a sentence an operator can use. She is the most pro-directory of the contributors — the position that listing companies under a thesis is itself an editorial act.