Writing a book is a lonely pursuit, one that can take years of solitary work. Selling a book is another story. Authors give talks in cramped storefronts, schmooze at luncheons, and learn to casually discuss their belabored creative project...
There’s a case to be made that 2020, for all the sacrifices it demanded and tragedies it inflicted, could at least mark a turning point on climate change. It's now possible that global oil demand and greenhouse-gas emissions may...
Watching their idea get pitched in a meeting was devastating. “That was one of the key things I was using to try to keep my job,” Black says. “The thing I thought was my ticket gets thrown back in...
Our reliance on technology in isolation altered our relationship to gadgets and our consumption habits, while businesses had to adapt their strategies around new technologies like AI. Advances in technology and new tech trends emerge every year...
This was a year we needed technology to save us. A pandemic raced over the land, there were wildfires, uneasy political divisions, and we gasped in the miasma of social media. In 2020, the ways in which technology can...
Joe Biden has hired people with ties to Big Tech. | Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Joe Biden’s selection of Jessica Hertz to a powerful role has stirred the debate over...
We often make a sharp distinction between “traditional” and “modern.” We view tradition with distrust, assuming that we are simply latching ourselves onto arbitrary decisions from yesteryear. Technology, on the other hand, is viewed as progressive. Rather than...
This is not a year we'll look back on fondly. It began with Australia on fire and ends with more than 1.5 million dead in a pandemic. But there have been bright points in this annus horribilis. While many...
A major Chinese supplier of consumer electronics components, Lens Technology, has been accused of using forced Uighur labor workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, China, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) shared with...
A US postal worker delivers Amazon boxes in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we’ll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being...
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