A historical collection of information storage technology—information you could hold in your hand.

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

A funeral for a lighthouse, a sermon in fungus, our vanishing digital media, and the arrow of time.

A guide for engineers and curious people who use the web every day, but never built a mental model of how browsers work.

Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.

So we are all — collectively, culturally — looking for the Next Big Thing, and we keep not finding it.

The horrifying result of 15+ years of steering the tech industry away from solving actual problems in pursuit of eternal growth.

We like progress—whether in technology, economy or culture—but we fear the most powerful generators of such progress.

Different renditions of the same data.

From talent arbitrage and “proof of craft” to hardware moats, ambient listening, homegrown software, and the end of waste.

A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world.

Very few graphic inventions have shaped the visual landscape of our everyday lives as quietly and ubiquitously as the barcode.

A drive folder with 2026 Trends reports from multiple companies, consultancies, and research groups.

Rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

How accelerating tech progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and what we lose when fewer things are built to last.

In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around.

From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.