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The filter bubble

Digital technology lets us all be artists but does its guiding hand sap our creativity and lead to cultural homogeneity?

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The Facility, by Ayodele Arigbabu

Our series of short fiction exploring the future of collective intelligence continues

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The blockchain, explained

​It's like a distributed ledger for convoluted analogies

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Sex and the city

Cities are built for 'anybody but women' argue campaigners. How can we move towards female-friendly urban planning?

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Digital nomads: the future of work, or colonialism 2.0?

Young professionals are exchanging cubicles for 'exotic' locales. But living cheap and free comes with uncomfortable questions about privilege

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Canned designs: Bold, brazen but never built in Pittsburgh

Christopher Beanland revisits Frank Lloyd Wright's singular fusion of high rises, ramps, cars and greenery

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The plan to move a Swedish town two miles to the east

Favourited: A short film follows the improbable plans to relocate Kiruna to save it from sinking

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Hold your nerves

Why a little stress may be good for you

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Ending the paper trail

State archives take up a lot of space. Should we digitise the lot, and burn the books? Finland is taking a radical step

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Canned designs: Tokyo's floating city

Urban 'what-ifs' – Kenzō Tange​'s fantastical architecture