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…
The enormous, windowless concrete buildings encircled by chain-link fencing and humming cooling systems on the outskirts of any mid-sized American city where a new data center…
The slightly awkward ritual of starting a game from the desktop, closing the notification that wants to update your drivers, clicking past the launcher that appeared…
Every September, someone declares the smartphone’s demise somewhere in Silicon Valley or on a keynote stage in a city that still adheres to its own mythology.…