The VERGE 2021

What it does

For our anniversary, we asked 10 of the smartest, most interesting, most influential people we know to describe our lives in 2021 — and the many ways technology, culture, science, and transportation will change.

We started The Verge five years ago knowing that the smartphone would change almost everything about culture — that technology and culture would begin to influence each other in entirely new ways. In 2011, we had only begun to see how putting a computer in everyone’s pocket would change the world. But these devices have now pushed towns to subsidize ridesharing apps instead of building parking lots; programmatic video filters that once required warehouses of computing power are now an everyday part of the teenage experience; and 140-character messages have become a backbone of politics. Change is coming at us faster than ever. With the phone, predictions now feel relatively easy. But we’re…from theverge.com

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