There’s a good chance that someone will post about Google’s shortcomings if you open a gaming forum on any given Tuesday. The remarks are foreseeable. Stadia…
When a result is announced that no one anticipated, a certain kind of silence descends upon a room full of cosmologists. It’s not precisely the silence…
Anyone who has spent the last three years in the waiting room of an endocrinologist will recognize this moment. Now the room is different. Some of…
The brochures are consistently lovely. Images of wind turbines over immaculate beaches, soft greens, and terms like “sustainable,” “responsible,” and “future-focused.” The ESG pitch, framed, laminated,…
These days, there’s a difference when you walk through the halls of a technical college in Johannesburg or attend a startup pitch session in Lagos. The…
Over the past two years, parts of San Francisco’s SoMa district have experienced a particular kind of silence. Once bustling with standing desks and cold brew…
During the Super Bowl earlier this year, about 25% of the RVs parked in a Southern California campground were using a silver, iPad-shaped device aimed at…
Nowadays, practically every pharmacy in London, Houston, or Seoul has a dedicated shelf, sometimes two, devoted to items that didn’t exist in any significant form ten…
A few years ago, a grainy photo from the 1960s went viral on tech forums. It depicts a group of men gathered around a large terminal…
I can’t stop thinking about that particular moment. Several hundred scientists, medical professionals, and businesspeople convened in Cascais, a sun-bleached coastal town west of Lisbon, in…