Silicon Icarus was established in 2021 by independent journalist and documentary filmmaker, Raul Diego, to put an editorial target on the back of emerging data-driven economic models and the cybernetic machines used to undermine human agency and creativity.

Exploring the social, economic and historical forces that have led us to a point where humanity is increasingly at risk of capitulating to the technocratic designs of late-stage capitalism has become critical in the face of a compromised media landscape, itself captured by government, billionaires or its own audience.