1. The Story Behind the TIME AI Agent
A behind-the-scenes exploration of how TIME built its unified AI-powered platform to transform passive news consumption into an interactive, generative experience—melding trusted journalism with advanced language understanding, translation, and voice synthesis in collaboration with Scale AI for global audiences. (time.com)
“Today, we’re launching the TIME AI Agent—a unified, AI-powered platform that doesn’t just inform, it interacts.”
2. Collaborators in creation
An expansive essay dissecting the co-evolution of social and physical technologies as dynamic collaborators in shaping culture and self, weaving insights from complexity science to ask: can we steer processes we barely control? (aeon.co)
“Technology is changing who we are and the society we live in at a blinding pace. How can we make sense out of these changes?”
3. An environment designed to suit every body is better for all
Anna Leahy champions universal design through personal narrative and case studies—showing how products like OXO Good Grips, born from one person’s need, become better solutions for everyone, and reframing inclusivity as both humane and profitable. (aeon.co)
“Universal design focuses on what works for everyone, where ‘everyone’ is a basic criterion, and the emphasis is on commonality rather than on difference.”
4. What do we uncover when we look through digital eyes?
Samuel Arbesman examines the rise of machine vision—from smartphones to surveillance networks—to reveal how digital mediation surfaces an “eruption of the digital into the physical,” challenging our perception of the built and natural world. (aeon.co)
“Converging, leapfrogging technologies evoke new emotional responses within us, responses that do not yet have names.”
5. These incredible photos show you life from a bug’s perspective
Takuya Ishiguro’s luminous macro photographs elevate insects from the unseen margins into vivid narrators of creativity and survival, inviting a profound respect for nature’s ingenuity through a deeply human lens. (nationalgeographic.com)
“I came to see insects not as specimens but as ‘beings that live together with us.’”