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Tag: pandemic

  • 30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020

    It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html more ›

  • The Anti-Social Century

    Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/ more ›

  • World stage

    The young recognize no boundary between systems and applications, they will respect no mediocrity in your product design. more ›

  • Contactless

    Given enough bandwidth, even the warm sensation of touch might be simulated and perfected by machines – digital and otherwise. more ›

  • Bionic brethren

    How many vaccines can my body take, if Gates is right again and this is just the first episode in a pandemic season? What does my skill set look like, if… more ›

  • Sync

    Synchronization and dispersion, grave interruption and seamless play. Technology and geopolitics swing back and forth between what used to be polar opposites and are now striking and coincidental features of everyday… more ›

  • Benevolent force

    Left to its own devices, thermodynamics will revert us and everything we built back to the state of nature. Left to our own, we humans seem increasingly oblivious and willing… more ›

  • Remote culture

    The post-pandemic euphoria is inevitable. After a couple of rounds of the global vaccination efforts, we should expect a thirsty and voluptuous return to the physical world of events and… more ›

  • Superjurisdiction

    You live on a farm now, working from home or out in the field. It may look like a city, but the space you occupy and do not own is… more ›

  • Future fatigue

    Winter is coming: a cold, northern, long and suspenseful season. Six months from now the world will be more pessimistic, tired of the overwhelming sentiment of defeat against the unreasonable forces… more ›