Toronto, Canada
Here we are ten years after the iPhone. Apple seems stagnant and out of ideas. Its patents suggest something big is coming, but nothing is coming. This all seems so familiar. I would not be surprised if 2017 is the year Apple changes all over again. Something big must be coming because Apple is a company that does not coast and right now it is coasting. It is coasting exactly like it was in 2005–2006 before changing the world.
We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. We believe people who write and share ideas should be rewarded on their ability to enlighten and inform, not simply their ability to attract a few seconds of attention. We believe there are millions of thinking people who want to deepen their understanding of the wor…