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.
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.
A collection of ideas, thoughts and recent developments related to our environment and milieu.
David Hieatt, co-founder of Hiut Denim and The Do Lectures in Wales, shares his love of histories, standing out, and doing one thing really well.
Beyond the headlines of targeted killings and privacy issues lies a story of a technology rife with possibility as it enters into our everyday life, for better or for worse.
Cloud, Big Data, and now the Internet of Things? Only one of them is being developed in garages. We explore the impact of connected objects, and how it is more than just the latest in a round of buzzwords.
The pair sat down with Patrick Tanguay (PT), Editor-at-large of The Alpine Review, to chat about gentrification, the ways Berlin has changed over the last fifteen years, and whether affordable cities destroy ambition.
Between cleansing, superfoods, and the rise of gluten-free, health-conscious eating has become a dominant trend. But it can tip over into extreme behavior.
A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye.
Faced with limited time, money, space and material, it becomes paramount that we act deftly when it matters most; but first we’ll have to hone our ability to make good decisions together.
“Defensive architecture” is a term used to describe design features that are intended to restrict the use of space to a narrow set of activities that are approved by the owner.
Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions that make society move.
Events today are big engines of creativity, production, and networking. As an industry and near philosophy onto itself, what trends are we seeing in live events and where are the opportunities to enrich these gatherings?
In the context of the new chef craze, iconic culinary figure Jacques Pépin underlines the everlasting importance of simplicity and humility, reiterating that the main reason to cook remains the same: to share.
Four Singaporean public school teachers founded The Thought Collective: a dynamic and engaging series of social enterprises, ranging from magazine publishing to restaurants, to a think tank to social innovation and of course, education.
Lawrence Wright on the fragile equilibrium that holds society together.
As we learn to think “hypertextually,” we can only begin to guess at what new mental spaces we might be carving out for ourselves.
Put your weapons down. The gaming industry has been turned on its head by the de-mocratization of development and distribution tools, paving the way for games as a form of deeply personal art. A new wave of standouts signals the way forward for a mature creative medium.
Corporate culture is all the rage these days and this historical artefact from the Benjamin Moore company shows how important corporate value systems have always been.
Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world.
Ideas, thoughts and signals shaping the world of media.
To maintain any semblance of happiness, the skill most of us will require in the future is sensemaking, the ability to connect discrete insights and synthesize large quantities of often incomplete or conflicting information.
Todd Barket knows retail. His clothing store, Unionmade, has become a benchmark for new men’s retail by catering to gents who know exquisite quality craftsmanship and have an eye for timeless fashion. We have a chat with Todd about reading, reinvention, and, of course, keeping it real.
A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye — Vancouver's Old Faithful shop
As we increasingly operate according to the algorithms and information architecture of the internet, we learn not only to write like computers, but think like them too.
Before Fabrica there was Dark Matter, strategic design and systems thinking. In discussion with Dan Hill, we further our understanding of those topics and go from Little Printers in London to bookkeeping in Venice.
Christian Sandvig studies how the details of such algorithmic operations are selectively disclosed to shape the public’s relationship to these services.
As creativity becomes, arguably, the most valuable resource, city planners do their best to cultivate creative neighbourhoods where innovation can thrive. However, there is more to cultivating creativity than building coffee shops and craft supply stores.
Fearing a future where humans are afraid to experiment, two of the world’s most renowned engineers and inventors are crusading to re-create a culture where science, technology, engineering, and the acceptance of failure is once again appreciated and respected.
The road to fossil fuel transition is paved with complicated questions related to growth and scale. Scaling works well in periods of energy ‘ascent,’ when the supply of energy increases, but less in periods of energy ‘descent.
