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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.

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Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions that make society move — on unemployment and technology.

Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world — GE's stated embrace of 3D printing.

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, espouses technological determinism—the perspective that certain technologies have inherent qualities that are destined to become increasingly manifest, evoking a technological entropy of sorts.

Christian Sandvig studies how the details of such algorithmic operations are selectively disclosed to shape the public’s relationship to these services.

In our mission to understand large-scale phenomena, it is helpful to maintain a perspective grounded in real happenings.

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta describes a world that has become increasingly dangerous..

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.