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Your 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss
According to our favorite literary reviewer, Bethanne Patrick, these are the seven books that “will really matter” in 2026:
* Land by Maggie O’Farrell…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention
Pay attention to this interview. Because, you see, attention is seriously expensive — the Silicon Valley industry being worth $17 trillion, at least …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Fear and Fury: From Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse
New books are like London buses. You wait and wait and then a handful comes at the same time. Take, for example, histories of the New York City vigil…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Who Needs Goliaths? Don't Write Off Europe's Army of Davids
This is the final conversation from DLD. And the most optimistic - at least from a European perspective. John Thornhill, the FT’s Innovation Editor a…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Excited and Terrified: The Atlantic CEO on Journalism's AI Reckoning
For media moguls, we are living, to borrow from Dickens, in the best and worst of times. As Nicholas Thompson confessed to me at DLD, The Atlantic CE…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
64% and Counting: America's Venture Capital Dominance
One of the most bracing presentations at DLD this year was given by Crunchbase's data queen Gene Teare. Breaking down America's VC dominance, Teare's…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
From the Soil Up: Regenerating the Economy
Not everything at DLD this year was on the growing US-European economic and technological divide. There were many speeches on the environment includi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Three Minutes to Midnight: How Europe is Running out of Time
Few speakers at DLD this year were more sombre than The Economist's deputy executive editor Kenneth Cukier. “Civilizations aren’t killed,” Cukier say…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Today's AI Boom Is No Dot-Com Bubble
Few people experienced the Dot-Com bubble with more vertiginous intensity than Bill Gross, the Pasadena-based founder of Idealab and many many other …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Is It Game Over For Europe?
Yesterday’s show from the DLD conference was about the need for Europe to relearn the language of power. Today, things get even more dire for our Eur…
8 months, 3 weeks ago