The City Where Nobody Needs a Car
A street with no cars, and children playing in the middle. Lovely, says the postcard. Then someone puts up a…
The Extra Decades Nobody Planned For
School, work, retirement: three blocks planned when people died at seventy. Now the third block lasts thirty years, and nobody…
The Words Teenagers Use And Adults Do Not
Every generation invents new words, and the one before is sure the language is dying. It is not dying. It…
The Prose That Has Nobody Behind It
The text is correct, tidy and perfectly average. There is nothing to fix, and nobody on the other side. That…
What Happens to Your Accounts After You Die
The photos, the emails, the music you bought, the family group chat. Someone will have to deal with it all,…
The Robot That Draws in Ten Seconds
You type a sentence, wait ten seconds, and the picture is there. Beautiful. Then you look at the hands of…
The Business Model of Making You Angry
Nobody decided to make us fight. It’s just that anger gets shared more than calm, and any system that counts…
How to Spot a Fake Review in Ten Seconds
Five stars, two thousand reviews, all excited, all from the same week. There is a very quick way to tell…
The Islands That Stayed on the Maps for Centuries
A ship arrives at the coordinates and finds water two thousand metres deep. The island had been on every map…
The Rivers That No Longer Reach the Sea
Some big rivers end in sand before they reach the sea. Drought did not stop them: we used every drop,…