Capital cities that previously relied on the private sector for technology are exhibiting an odd new trend. All of these cities—Paris, Tokyo, Delhi, Bern, Kuala Lumpur,…
Author: Sam Allcock
Not too long ago, monarch butterflies were so abundant that they caused the branches of California’s coastal pines to bend. The way the orange clusters resembled…
On Tuesday afternoons, a certain kind of silence descends upon a Target store that didn’t exist five years prior. The red bullseye still shines above the…
Days after reading the report, the line that the chatbot signed off on is the one that has stayed with me. “Happy (and safe) shooting!” was…
A compliance analyst in a mid-sized Chicago financial services office is spending more time determining what the AI summary of regulatory filings overlooked rather than reading…
Something seems strange when you stand outside a mid-rise office building on a Tuesday afternoon in downtown San Francisco. The lobby is tidy. There are employees…
In Silicon Valley, there is a specific kind of moment when a business shifts its focus from technology to something more elusive, such as market position,…
These days, it’s easy to notice something when you walk into any mid-sized hospital in Cairo, Karachi, or São Paulo. Patients with infectious diseases are no…
President Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and Vladimir Putin watched Chinese drones fly autonomously alongside fighter jets during a military parade in Beijing last September. Naturally, military…
There’s something subtly unnerving about the term “cosmic snowballs.” It sounds almost lighthearted, the kind of language used by science instructors to keep students engaged. However,…