How do we navigate the shift from the physical to virtual?

Software is eating the world, but there is a also a renaissance of hardware, where “hardware is the new software,” increasingly open, agile, dynamic, drawing from similar investment and development practices.

What happens when a good chunk of people are unemployed due to automation? Douglas Rushkoff on the future of work and its broader implications (e.g. UBI, meaning etc.).

We have built a system of criminal law that depends upon our trusting the government but what is the state of trust in our institutions? Revisiting the Aaron Swartz story.

Some early thoughts on the blockchain by way of a series of recent articles by Ben Thompson and others.

Ann Friedman gives her no-nonsense take on durability in modern-day journalism, reflecting upon the timely and the timeless, the ephemeral and the evergreen.

Media platforms and tools are proliferating at an accelerating rate.

Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions that make society move.

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.

Boris Anthony and Hugh McGuire discuss how much more might be possible when we truly bring books to digital.