Author: David Brooks
A family was having dinner in the San Fernando Valley on an August evening in 2020 when their lights went out. There isn’t a storm outside.…
In the spring of 2019, Jeff Bezos made what appeared to be a fairly typical billionaire-in-space announcement while standing in front of a model of a…
When a homeowner answered the door in a peaceful Scottsdale, Arizona neighborhood early on January 31, she saw two young men in delivery uniforms carrying a…
Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, a woman enters a few local currency notes into a slot machine at a phone recharge kiosk and receives airtime. The solar-powered…
You almost instantly notice something when you pull up a chart showing the recent performance of the U.S. stock market. Fifty-five percent of the market’s growth…
Around 2018, Anna Liljedahl was browsing Facebook when she came across something that made her stop. The platform began employing facial recognition software to identify individuals…
A game developer who has spent the last ten years creating worlds for a major studio is starting over somewhere in California right now, maybe in…
When you step outside on a clear April night and stare up long enough, something changes. The day’s cacophony, including the news, the screen, and the…
There’s a particular kind of moment in financial history that only becomes obvious in retrospect — a month, sometimes just a few weeks, where enough things…
There is a specific type of discomfort that results from careful news rather than bad news. It’s easy to ignore screaming headlines about AI replacing human…