Future Technology

When the internet first emerged, people underestimated its force. It crept in quietly—dial-up tones, static pages, clunky email—and then, all at once, it rewrote every rule we thought was fixed. We watched entire industries dissolve and re-form. The humble website became the new storefront, the new billboard, the new passport into legitimacy. If you didn’t have one, you were invisible. Now we...