This is part 1 of a four-part series, Emergent Layers. If you haven’t read the introduction, I invite you to do so here . There’s a basic but powerful notion that all money is made at points of fricti

Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now considered plausible — is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is certain about the…

Published in Software Is Eating the World · 11 min read · Feb 21, 2016 -- The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of hand

4 min read · Feb 28, 2016 -- A friend who works with Artificial Intelligence told me: “It is possible that there are highly context dependent and complex things about humans, but in terms of intellige

It’s done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services, from streaming video to managing its employee and customer data. In early January, whatever little

I Miss Barack Obama Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times As this primary season has gone along, a strange sensation has come over me: I miss Barack Obama. Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Ob

Social Media: Destroyer or Creator? Wael Ghonim, center, in Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011. His anonymous Facebook page helped start a revolution. Credit... Dylan Martinez/Reuters Over the last few ye

“Every season since the Gold Rush, California has blossomed with new money — first in gold, then in land, cattle, railroads, agriculture, film images, shipbuilding, aerospace, electronics, television and commercial religions. The ease with which the happy few become suddenly rich lends credence to…

THE muscle-bound rivals have entered the ring. The verbals are at fever pitch. On February 1st Iowans will caucus in the opening round of America’s presidential tussle. Just over a week later, voters

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THE slightly leaning point of the Aiguille de la République, in the Mont Blanc range, is just large enough for a nerveless climber to sit and admire the view: 2,300 metres of empty air between his per

When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is and when

David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker David Bowie in 1989. He lived in New York City for more than 20 years. Credit... Masayoshi Sukita, via Morrison Hotel Gallery About 10 years ago, the playwright John

It’s been just over a year since the masses “discovered” podcasting in the wake of Serial ’s blockbuster success. The wildly popular show was said to have reawakened a neglected art form—a breakthroug

Published in Mike’s blog · 18 min read · Jan 14, 2016 -- I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, a

Illustration by Piotr Lesniak Glenn Thrush is chief political correspondent for Politico and senior staff writer for Politico Magazine . Noah Weiland contributed to this report. For most of 2014, Whit

One of the more famous marketing frameworks is the Marketing Mix , also known as “The Four P’s.” According to the framework there are four key components to a marketing plan: P roduct (what is actuall

HBO This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Three years ago, Netflix said it wanted to become HBO . Now there’s pressure for HBO to become Netflix, by spinning out from parent company Time Warner. The idea,…

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Over the past year, I’ve gone all-in with iOS. Following years of experiments, struggles to switch from a Mac-centric workflow, and encouraging signs of maturity from the platform, I chose to make the

What follows are some passages of text from a piece about technology in the New York Review of Books . Just as the market or the free play of competition provided in theory the optimum long-run soluti

Editorial End the Gun Epidemic in America Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. All decent people feel sorrow and right

Jamelle Bouie/Flickr Earlier this month, Donald Trump spewed a string of enraged non sequiturs for two hours straight on a stage in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He suggested castration or the death penalty as th

I n 1989 the political systems of three centuries came to an end in Europe: the balance-of-power and the imperial urge. That year marked not just the end of the Cold War, but also, and more significan

When Air Force One next touches down on US soil, at an Alaskan refuelling stop on Sunday, Barack Obama will have completed a week-long circumnavigation of a world that can rarely have felt further fro

I. Almost 70 years ago, a new world order was born from the rubble of World War II, built by and around the power of the United States. Today that world order shows signs of cracking, and perhaps even

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It Credit... Kelly Blair Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeo

The Saturday Essay After Paris, Islamic State’s rise and Syria’s agony are shaking a weakened Europe—and the international system. Can the U.S. summon the resolve to respond? By Robert Kagan Nov. 20,

THE political implications of the attacks in Paris are only just starting to unfurl. But there are early indications that one might be the accelerated growth of (ultimately inevitable) splits in the L

In what was already a grim week for the Jeb Bush campaign, a bit more bad news late Thursday night. After a meeting in Houston on Monday, the campaign sent parts of a presentation to reporters detaili

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Startups lack discipline, late-stage investors can be a double-edged sword and a new breed of VCs are pursuing very different corporate structures. Those were some of the takeaways from our fiery pane

I'm feeling low energy Ethan Miller/Getty Images Jeb Bush's campaign has been struggling in the polls for a while now, and it looks like fundraising has taken a big hit too because the campaign is dow

Welcome to Mossberg , a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.

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Seven years after being fired, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is returning to the company as C.E.O. PHOTOGRAPH BY SCOTT EISEN / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it wa