Charles Stross opens Accelerando with a man crossing a plaza in front of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, sunlight coming off the canal, his eyeballs powered up. Manfred Macx is a “venture altruist.” He…

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room when six people are trying to decide whether to open the door.

In late June of 2026, PlayStation customers across the United Kingdom and Europe opened their accounts and found a message waiting. As of the first of September, it explained, they would no longer be…

Running a 1-person AI startup relies on agentic leverage and context engineering. A solo founder acts as an orchestrator and the vision has been talked about for years.

There is a moment near the start of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, published in 1984, when the reader learns exactly what kind of story this is going to be. Case, a washed-up console cowboy, has been…

The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.

Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…

On February 15, 2003, people gathered in more than six hundred cities to oppose an invasion that had not yet happened. The BBC estimated that between six and ten million people turned out across as…

Begin with something small. A room at night, the lights off, the house quiet. Nothing is happening. You are aware of the hum of the refrigerator two rooms away, the particular grain of darkness…

Autonomous and semi-autonomous coding agents are now standard equipment in professional software development. The 2025 DORA research program, drawing on survey responses from nearly five thousand…