The Future Has Arrived

Text by Robert Maharajh, infographic by Ole Häntzschel

‘The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed’. William Gibson can’t remember when he first began using this oft-quoted maxim, but it was possibly around 1999, most likely a lot earlier…

Amplifying Inequality

by Kentaro Toyama

Why do we assume that advances in technology will reduce inequality? It has something to do with the law of amplification, explains Kentaro Toyama.

Peak Labour?

by Adam Kleinman

From outsourcing to botsourcing, writer and curator Adam Kleinman explores how advances in manufacturing point to an uncertain future for robot vs. human labour.

Robin Hood Coop

by Tere Vadén

Financial markets might seem to be at the very core of inequality. Based on a hacking model, Robin Hood Coop uses cutting-edge technology to intercept the routes of Wall Street’s best traders — and then re-distributes the profits.

The Rise of General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko Through Social Media

Social media is proving a potentially lethal weapon against dictatorships in Africa, reports Elie Smith, a Cameroonian journalist, reporter and translator.

Inside rebel-held Aleppo: As war continues to rage, women are finding ways to stay connected

by Zaina Erhaim

Our series begins with a report from rebel-held Aleppo, a city in the north of Syria…

A Postcolonial Look at the Future of #EdTech

by Maha Bali

Inspired by: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson

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UN-mapping Territory

by Oscar Murillo

Recently the mundanity of global air travel has come to fascinate me. Websites such as Plane Finder, at their base level, track the minutiae of global travel. Geographical location, speed, altitude — all of these details are meticulously recorded…

An new era of innovation — so why are most getting poorer? 

by Robert Maharajh

Digital technologies should add over $1.3 trillion to annual global output by 2020, according to a recent study by Accenture and Oxford Economics. Few now dispute that they are the…