For most of the web’s history, visiting a website has meant navigating a page ourselves: typing a URL, reading menus, comparing products, filling out forms, clicking buttons and eventually completing … Read More
A profession can disappear without the work itself disappearing. The task may be absorbed by a machine, a government office, a new industry, or an entirely different occupation. That makes … Read More
For years, personal improvement was sold as a project of reinvention: overhaul the diet, redesign the morning, transform the body, declutter the home, change careers, become more productive. The language … Read More
The AI boom is creating a second technology market that is easier to miss than the models themselves: a market for compute capacity. Behind every large language model, AI agent, … Read More
A border can outlive the ruler, kingdom or empire that created it. Long after a treaty is forgotten, its consequences may remain visible in the language people speak, the roads … Read More
The places where people spend time outside home and work are quietly being redesigned by changes in work, technology, economics and urban life. The familiar café, library, neighborhood park or … Read More
Search engines were built around a simple exchange: users asked questions, search engines provided links, and publishers received visitors when their information helped answer those questions. AI-powered search is changing … Read More
A cracked teacup, an old family photograph, a handwritten recipe book, a worn-out suitcase, or a decades-old radio may appear insignificant when sitting on a shelf. Yet historians often discover … Read More
Convenience used to mean doing the same thing with less effort. A dishwasher reduced the work of washing dishes. A microwave shortened meal preparation. Online banking removed a trip to … Read More
Artificial intelligence is moving from being a tool that answers questions to a system that increasingly influences decisions. Algorithms now help determine what content people see, which applications receive attention, … Read More
