Globally, around 300 million people consider themselves "influencers" or professional content creators. In the United States alone the number is approximately 13 million – that's roughly the same size of the US manufacturing sector. It's a precarious profession and the reasons for choosing to become an influencer are many and varied. So, what does their rise tell us about the modern workforce? Also, building islands to create offshore energy hubs; and a warning about the dangers of normalising the abnormal.
The truth about AI – garbage in, garbage out
The best response to disasters: centralised strength or community mitigation?
The greatest demographic shift in a century is being ignored: single living
When good intentions fuel further environmental problems
Big corporations are taking over as landlords and it's further fuelling the global housing crisis
The great distribution dilemma – can public interest journalism survive?
Dark sky at night, everyone's delight
Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment
The manufacturing of "natural food" and how tech can demystify what we eat
Self-destructive behaviour — the enemy within
Fear and anger – the complicated emotions that govern our world
Algorithmic homogeny – why everything looks and feels the same
The weaponisation of nostalgia; and has culture come to a standstill?
Are we really becoming more isolated and less community minded?
TikTok's superstar economy – how live-streaming is turning social media into a game played for money
Conversing with aliens and 'decentering' the human
Does AI show we overestimate our human creativity? And what does creativity mean anyway?
Growing houses and running computers with help from bacteria — the future of synthetic biology
Building a new social contract
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