Tag: trends

• The Tyranny of Terrazzo

  September 12, 2020

  All that pink. All those plants. All that white. It’s so clean! Everything’s fun, but not too much fun. And there, in the round mirror above the couch: It’s you. You… more ›

• Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook.

  July 28, 2020

  In Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to… more ›

• The confusions

  July 10, 2020

  Seth Godin talks about the difficulties and common mistakes in predicting the future. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zzbC1AWaghTt2bZ2KFF40 more ›

• IT’S TIME TO BUILD

  April 22, 2020

  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not… more ›

• WGSN By Ascential

  April 14, 2020

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• Where Iran Goes to Party – Air Mail

  January 25, 2020

  TBILISI, Georgia—On a day when some 70 Iranians protested outside the Iranian Embassy here against the killing of General Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-1-25/where-iran-goes-to-party more ›

• From Prenda to Snowden to SpaceX: Tech trends that shaped the 2010s

  January 1, 2020

  It’s been quite a decade. Tech surfed into the 2010s upon a huge wave of optimism and connection (Facebook!) but eventually wiped out on the shoals of cynicism and tribalism… more ›

• e-Conomy SEA 2019: Swipe up and to the right: Southeast Asia’s $100 billion internet economy

  November 11, 2019

  Companies are switching their focus from acquiring new customers to driving engagement. Their goal is to convince users to stay on their platforms for longer, in the belief that purchases… more ›

• Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

  September 25, 2019

  TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›