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2024

Special reports

The long goodbye

The next 50 years will be different, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran in a special report

Technology Quarterly

Where the internet lives

Users of the internet can ignore its physical underpinnings. But for technologies like artificial intelligence and the metaverse to work, others need to pay attention, argues Abby Bertics

Special reports

Move fast and mend things

The super-rich are hoping to get money to the needy faster, says Avantika Chilkoti


2023-2000

Special reports

The new economy net zero needs

It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored

Special reports

Unknown soldiers

Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page

Special reports

Homeland Economics

Governments across the world are rediscovering industrial policy. They are making a big mistake, argues Callum Williams

Technology Quarterly

In search of forever

Slowing, let alone reversing, the process of ageing was once alchemical fantasy. Now it is a subject of serious research and investment, Geoffrey Carr reports

Technology Quarterly

The most personal technology

Demand for, and expectations of, in vitro fertilisation are growing. The technology is struggling to keep up, write Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta

Special reports

Battlefield lessons

The war shows how technology is changing the battlefield. But mass still counts, argues Shashank Joshi

Special reports

Cashless talk

The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani

Special reports

A difficult new world

Everything about carmaking is changing at once. The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace, says Simon Wright

Technology Quarterly

The ultimate supply chains

One of the foundations of modernity is about to be transformed, reports Hal Hodson

Special reports

Insert coin

As video games move from teenage distraction to universal pastime they are following the same path as other mass media, says Tom Wainwright

Special reports

Frontline Formosa

Taiwan’s fate will, ultimately, be decided by the battle-readiness of its people, says Alice Su

Special reports

Erdogan’s empire

Approaching its centenary, Turkey faces an election that could decide its future as a democracy, argues Piotr Zalewski