A growing class of travelers is spending money in destinations without behaving much like conventional tourists. They rent apartments for weeks or months, work from cafés and coworking spaces, buy … Read More
A tradition can survive long after the circumstances that created it have disappeared. A greeting may remain after its original social meaning has faded. A seasonal practice can continue after … Read More
For decades, the travel calendar seemed remarkably predictable. Mediterranean beaches filled in July and August, ski resorts waited for winter, and northern destinations relied on summer visitors escaping colder climates. … Read More
A person once called a bank, emailed a doctor, visited a government office or spoke with a school administrator to navigate an institution. Increasingly, the first interaction is becoming a … Read More
A strange feature of social progress is that societies often recognize when a problem has changed before they change the way they respond to it. Institutions update rules, organizations add … Read More
For decades, travel aspiration was built around recognition: Paris, Bali, Venice, Kyoto, Santorini. A destination became desirable partly because everyone already knew its name. But a different kind of travel … Read More
The AI industry has spent years treating model size as a proxy for capability. Bigger training runs, more parameters and larger clusters have produced increasingly powerful systems but the economics … Read More
History is often associated with grand documents: treaties, royal decrees, military orders, constitutions and the writings of famous people. But some of the most revealing evidence about the past was … Read More
For decades, luxury travel was easy to recognize: the famous hotel, the presidential suite, the private jet, the Michelin-starred restaurant, the destination everyone wanted to see. Increasingly, however, some of … Read More
The most consequential AI assistants may not be the ones with the largest models. They may be the ones that remember the most about you. That shift is already underway. … Read More
