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The Rebirth of the City-State

Are technological, cultural, and environmental factors combining to disrupt the nation-state in favor of an ancient alternative?
Corin Faife
Apr 12, 2016 7 min read

Metropolis: A Reading List

A crash course in the ways cities influence new ideas–and how new ideas change city life.
How We Get To Next
Apr 7, 2016 3 min read

For Unbanked Populations, the Future of Banking Is Pocket-Size

A dispatch from the streets of Myanmar.
Fanny Potkin
Mar 31, 2016 6 min read

The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past

Want to disrupt finance? Start here.
Brett Scott
Mar 30, 2016 9 min read

U.S. Debt Is Massive and Other Countries Are Desperate to Keep It That Way

The global financial system relies on massive amounts of perpetual national debt–and that's OK.
Annie Logue
Mar 30, 2016 4 min read

Your Money, Explained in GIFs

Where it comes from, who creates it, what inflation is, and how much there is on Earth.
Abigail Hartstone
Mar 30, 2016 1 min read

Who Will Invent the Money of Tomorrow?

Forget a global currency–we'll see more types of digital cash than there are nations.
David Birch
Mar 29, 2016 7 min read

The Problem With Smart Cities

It's no use turning cities into data mines without putting human needs at the forefront.
Cat Matson
Mar 28, 2016 4 min read

Why Aren’t We Teaching Math for the Real World?

Math is still important, but we have the priorities wrong in the current framework.
Steven Johnson
Mar 24, 2016 9 min read

How to Smuggle Money into North Korea

“It takes 20 minutes to get cash into the hands of a North Korean,” said Jieun Baek, a fellow at Harvard...
Oliver Hotham
Mar 23, 2016 5 min read
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