A small groups of people who own data centres are profiting from colonising the planet and consuming vast amounts of natural resources, while passing on gigantic losses to investors and communities.
Money, markets, and financial infrastructure have become powerful instruments of geopolitics. They subdue the world without firing a shot.
Nepal’s deadly flood shows why warming mountain landscapes demand better warnings, monitoring and preparedness.
Fardunji Murzban transformed his passion for learning into a publishing revolution. His Gujarati newspaper, Mumbai Samachar, created a new public sphere, leaving a legacy that has endured for over two centuries.
Why has the glamour in grammar disappeared? From magic and memory to machines and micro-aggressions, here’s a meditation on grammar’s fading glamour in the age of artificial intelligence.
