The world around us seems as turbulent as it has ever been. Tremors across industry, across culture, across the environment, are profoundly reshaping everything we know. We started The Alpine Review as an attempt to understand those tremors from a long-term point of view — to look at how our immediate moment is shaped by the past and will shape us in the future.
A collection of ideas, thoughts and recent developments related to our environment and milieu.
Always pushing computing capacity further, Google has now invested in a quantum computer.
We’ve been told to watch our weight, count our calories and time our runs for quite a while now; but never before have we had the technology to measure all of our behavior so seamlessly, sensitively, automatically and intelligently.
What is the role of IP as a competitive differentiator in a world of data and platforms — the interesting case of Tesla.
Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world — BRCK, M-KOPA, LIFELINK and other interesting developments.
Tracking interesting signals, new and old ideas in the field of economics and business.
A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye.
This "mobile laboratory" initiative by BMW and Guggenheim was an interesting manifestation of the optimistic 'change is possible if we want to make it' vibe prevailing at the time (2011-12).
Three miles off the coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, in the world’s largest freshwater lake, sits an undeveloped 90-acre island with an agenda.
Cities thrive when they successfully service our basic needs with intelligence and simplicity. Recovering from 60 years of automobile-focused development and sprawl, urban planners are taking things in the right direction—backwards.
The new loosely organized online lobbyists are becoming a political force. Are they succeeding?
Tracking interesting signals, new and old ideas in the field of economics and business — Indie capitalism
Quality education and the nordic model: how it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity
If our educational institutions and workplaces could be reimagined for the digital age, what would they look like? Perhaps just like your favourite coffee shop.
A pioneering institution, a trailblazing magazine, a legendary region and a networked culture. Fabrica’s new CEO talks us through the realignment and new outlook energizing the centre.
Robert Rowland Smith argues that the “Age of Ideas” has reached its peak. So what comes next?
A collection of ideas, thoughts and recent developments related to our environment.
As a doctor, Rob Gorski’s training and livelihood is intervention. But when it comes to his island, he’s decided to let nature run its course.
As we learn to think “hypertextually,” we can only begin to guess at what new mental spaces we might be carving out for ourselves.
The archives of the Soviet Union’s only true advertising agency are stuffed with psychedelic paradoxes and unearthly, sometimes unappetizing delights.
Methodologies, tools and vehicles of production are accelerating full-speed into the future—Simone Cicero offers seven ways organizations and enterprises can gear up to keep up.
A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.
Ideas, thoughts and other curiosities about business and retail — the 1-click button
Micro-transitions give context and meaning to complex ecosystems. We just need to start looking at the invisible.
Human-centered design programs and practices—from the likes of d.School and IDEO—are making their way into politics. Exploring what came out of the highly revered UK Government Digital Service (GDS) program.
Boris Anthony and Hugh McGuire discuss how much more might be possible when we truly bring books to digital.
Lewis Lapham argues that there’s a reason good writing is hard to find on the internet. What is good writing, anyway?
Media platforms and tools are proliferating at an accelerating rate.
Bill McKibben outlines the three critical numbers in the balance between global salvation and global devastation-- and why the fossil fuel energy industry needs more than just a stern reprimand.
CRISPR brings transhumanist dreams of technologically-mediated human perfection nearer to reality, but our complex world of human affairs might not be disrupted so easily.
What happens when the wardens of digital information (and the all-too-human people behind it) accumulate too much data?
A physicist-turned-farmer is using open source technology for an innovative project that places the power to survive and thrive directly in the hands of every community.