“What do you think of this?”
That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the University of California, Berkeley. It goes to a friend you don’t know all that well, a couple of texts into...
A friend told me last month, on a rooftop in Bangkok with the traffic grinding away eight floors below, that she sometimes imagines getting on a plane and simply not coming back. Then she apologised. Actually apologised, to me,...
Somewhere on the internet right now there is a photograph of two 61-year-old women sitting side by side. They are identical twins. One of them looks about a decade older. The caption travelling with it usually claims one twin...
In January 1998, the host of a syndicated quiz show signed away 74 acres of undeveloped ridge and canyon in the Hollywood Hills, and the transaction registered less as celebrity gesture than as a change in the map. Alex...
The setup
How long does a group have to exist before it has an inside?
Two people met in a text chatroom and spent five minutes discussing what would make someone a good airline pilot. A third person, the one who...
The romantic version of creativity begins with surrender. Stop controlling the mind, let it wander and wait for the strange idea to arrive.
The managerial version begins at the opposite end. Define the problem, evaluate every option and impose enough...
An alarm can be moved from 7am to 5.30am in a few taps. The body attached to it does not update quite so quickly.
That gap is where the familiar early-riser story tends to become a character test. A determined...
Sixty-five per cent of the American respondents and 62.1 per cent of the Chinese ones said people have become less considerate, helpful or cooperative over a sixty-year span reaching a few years into the future. Twenty-three per cent of...
A teacher in Greece opens a survey link and finds a student’s exercise on screen. Five parts, each already labelled correct or incorrect. Underneath sits a mark somebody else has given: five out of ten. The only thing left...
Canadian organizations may be eager to adopt artificial intelligence, but finding the capital to turn AI plans into working systems remains a challenge.
An upcoming virtual event from MacKay CEO Forums aims to help business leaders better understand the funding...
