Gamer After: How the World’s Thumb-Warriors Are Re-Engineering Reality Once the Console Clicks Off By our man in the cheap seats, somewhere between Reykjavík and regret In the beginning was the joystick, and the joystick was with the teenager, and the joystick was the teenager. Then the pandemic arrived like an overdue DLC nobody asked…
Generation Z, the planet’s first true digital natives, arrived squalling somewhere between the late-1990s and the early-2010s, depending on which demographer you bribe. They are now roughly 12 to 27 years old—old enough to vote, drink (where legal), and still be sent to bed without Wi-Fi. Internationally, they are the largest generational cohort in human…
When a San-Francisco start-up best known for turning human silhouettes into JPEGs decides it’s time to go public, the planet takes notice—whether it wants to or not. Figure AI, the company that’s been teaching robots to fold laundry and smile stiffly like overworked flight attendants, filed confidentially for a U.S. IPO this week, valuing the…
Generation Z: The Planet’s First Global Cohort Learns to Live on the Ashes of Optimism By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between Jakarta and Johannesburg If you want to meet Generation Z in the wild, skip the TikTok montages and try the overnight bus from Nairobi to Kampala. You’ll find them trading memes about climate collapse in…
Robert Half: The Global Talent Broker Quietly Redrawing the Map of Work When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, history books breathlessly announced the end of ideology. They were half right: ideology simply moved to LinkedIn. Into that vacuum stepped Robert Half, the San Ramon–born staffing firm that has spent 75 years persuading CFOs in…
