07:18 — The Entrance

I don’t think a robot will be waiting outside the door when we leave home on an ordinary morning in 2030.

We’ll probably still check for our phone, wallet and keys. We may still manage to leave one of them inside. The building itself might not look very different either.

The changes will be easier to spot once you step inside.

The

07:18 — The Entrance

I don’t think a robot will be waiting outside the door when we leave home on an ordinary morning in 2030.

We’ll probably still check for our phone, wallet and keys. We may still manage to leave one of them inside. The building itself might not look very different either.

The changes will be easier to spot once you step inside.

The

A document that takes forty minutes to change can quite easily occupy four days.

Not because anyone spends four days working on it. Most of the time nobody is touching it at all. Someone is waiting for a number, somebody else has comments, the person who needs to approve it is in meetings, and by the time the file comes back the next morning

A document that takes forty minutes to change can quite easily occupy four days.

Not because anyone spends four days working on it. Most of the time nobody is touching it at all. Someone is waiting for a number, somebody else has comments, the person who needs to approve it is in meetings, and by the time the file comes back the next morning

Waking up in a hotel room and needing a few seconds to remember where you are is normal. Especially if you travel often.

Sometimes, though, it isn’t because you’re still half asleep.

You look around the room: pale wood, neutral bedding, a thin black-framed mirror, a small lamp beside the bed. Dark pump bottles in the bathroom. A few dried branches

Tell someone you have started running and it is surprisingly difficult for the conversation to end with a simple “nice.” How far do you run? What is your pace? Which shoes did you buy? Are you training for a race? If you enjoy photography, someone will ask what camera you use. Develop even a mild interest in coffee and, before long, you may find

Tell someone you have started running and it is surprisingly difficult for the conversation to end with a simple “nice.” How far do you run? What is your pace? Which shoes did you buy? Are you training for a race? If you enjoy photography, someone will ask what camera you use. Develop even a mild interest in coffee and, before long, you may find

Tell someone you have started running and it is surprisingly difficult for the conversation to end with a simple “nice.” How far do you run? What is your pace? Which shoes did you buy? Are you training for a race? If you enjoy photography, someone will ask what camera you use. Develop even a mild interest in coffee and, before long, you may find

I was looking at an old photograph recently and could not immediately remember where it had been taken.

I know the people in it. I roughly know the period. I can even remember what was happening in my life around that time. But the day itself is gone. I do not remember what we did before, where we went afterwards, or what we were talking about.

I

Think of a photograph. The light is not great, the framing is slightly off, and something in the background is hard to make out. The person who took it was really there, pulled out a phone and captured the moment.

A few years ago, none of this would have needed much thought. A photo was simply a photo.

Today, seeing one question underneath it is