I see it as there’s sort of a Silicon Valley mentality of seamlessness and efficiency that often feels counterintuitive to the art world, which is more about slowly thinking and exploring. And I think that slowing down and exploring more might actually help technologists get to some of the stuff that they’re trying for anyway.

Ariel Lebeau: In my approach to editorial, everything comes from the community first. Whether we're compiling the digest or considering what kind of pieces we want to develop for our long-form platform, it all starts with what kind of conversations are developing organically within the community already and paying really close attention to the exch... See more

So if URLs are like land, and dense networks are like city-states, then what form of governance is appropriate? Probably not the autocracies we live with today. Most people probably want rulers to be bound by law, enforced by an impartial judiciary, and shaped by democratic legislative principles.

Digital twins are an internet concept that refers to the use of technologies such as the Internet of Things, sensors and big data to shape a digital production line in the cloud. Through this digital world mirror, we can better observe and adjust the entire factory operation.

Small bets lead to bigger bets. In hindsight, this idea seems obvious. But when the company started, nothing like this really existed (recall that Cameo was started a full two years after MasterClass launched). And while MasterClass has nearly $240 million in outside funding now, they tested the idea in 2015 with about $5 million. After getting mor... See more

I think that Twitter should and will build an app ecosystem like WeChat’s minis, all within the app.

Slightly controversial aesthetics cater to the leading edge of consumer culture, a large population willing to spend money in order to maintain its status. As this group consumes, the cultural Overton window shifts to accommodate more and more radical aesthetics, which lose their novel status as they become normalized. The cultural normalcy spectru... See more

Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:

• Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)


• They don’t speak the same language


• Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code


• It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its

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