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Why China got rich and India didn't
Here is a question that I think about a lot.
In the year 1950, much as today, the two largest countries in the world by population were China and India. China was a good deal larger at the time, holding 22 percent of the world’s population...
AI is killing the cheap smartphone
One of the most remarkable things about the last few decades is how cheap computers have gotten.
In 1985, if you were a reasonably affluent American, the best computer that you could afford was the IBM PC AT. The PC AT would cost you about...
Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Photos from Lars Tunbjörk’s “Office” series
Consider Toto.
If you spend much time in American public bathrooms, or rather if you’re simply a particularly attentive patron of American public bathrooms, you’ll probably have noticed Toto’s t...
Language models are weird for the same reason human cultures are weird
Cultures of the world, photographed by Irving Penn
In November 2025, shortly after OpenAI released GPT-5.1—a new model that promised “a smarter, more conversational ChatGPT”—a small set of users started to notice something weird. GPT-5.1 w...
Why airlines are always going bankrupt
All photos by Mike Kelley from his “Life Cycles” series
It might not be the most important story in the world right now, as our species takes its first halting steps into a brave new world of technological power whose contours are still to...
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