Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

Azeem Azhar

We are entering the exponential age. New inventions are created at a dazzling speed; our homes and workplaces are remade by technological forces we barely understand; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all points to a world that is getting faster at a diz...

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

Sathnam Sanghera

2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the...