Global dependence on the internet is broad, but it remains uneven. Around 6 billion people were online in 2025, while 2.2 billion remained offline. Internet use reached 74% of the world’s population, up from 71% a year earlier, making...
The internet has become the central operating layer of the modern economy. Connectivity now determines practical participation in finance, health access, work, education, commerce, communication, and public services. Cloud infrastructure supplies the computing base behind that participation, while artificial...
The call used to be ordinary: “Do you think we can hire another person?”
An assistant kept the office moving. A coordinator absorbed the follow-up work. A junior analyst turned messy numbers into something usable. On the floor, another worker...
The next stage of e-commerce may not begin on a retailer’s website. It may begin with a question.
A shopper looks for a cheaper version of a product, a replacement for something broken, or a gift that fits a need...
The internet represented one kind of economic transformation: it connected people, information, markets, and institutions at global scale. The Internet of Things represents the next step. It extends connectivity into the physical world, linking sensors, machines, infrastructure, and automated...
The phrase “science, technology and innovation” can sound abstract, like the language of panels, white papers and international forums. But underneath the acronym is something much more human: the desire to make life work better.
At the core is a...
The internet people use years from now may already be priced, limited, or expanded by spectrum decisions governments are making today. A government can book auction revenue today while quietly raising the cost of tomorrow’s internet. Poor mobile service...
A U.S. bank serves American customers while part of its digital machinery runs through a processing center in a foreign country. To the customer, nothing has moved. The account opens, the transaction clears and the service appears domestic. Yet...
The Dissolution of the Workplace
Not by design, but by constraint, work settled into physical form. Factories, offices, and warehouses did not simply organize labor—they made it observable. Time could be counted because workers were present. Authority could be exercised...
Economic transformations are often explained through visible technologies, yet the systems that ultimately shape productivity are usually the infrastructure that allows those technologies to scale. Industrialization depended not only on machines but on electrification that powered factories continuously. Global...