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Austrian fortune-telling cards from a pack of 32, showing acorns, hearts, bells and leaves.

Underexplained Lists

Underexplained Predictions For 2026

Patrick Redford

A large bitcoin guy regards the world they will take over

Politics

What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself?

Accademia carrara art gallery: playing cards and tarots, bembo e cicognara, 1455-1490, bergamo, Italy.

Underexplained Predictions For 2025

David Roth

New York City Mayor Eric Adams smiles and gives a thumbs-up at an MTA event in January of 2023.

Capital

Does It Matter That AI Doesn’t Work?

Justin Ellis

A man sitting in an Apple Store in Los Angeles demos the Apple Vision Pro with his hands held wide apart in a very silly way.

The Problem With The Goggles Of The Future Is Today

Santa Monica, CA - February 21: Passengers ride in an electric Jaguar I-Pace car outfitted with Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

San Francisco Takes First Step Towards The Grim, Autonomous Future Of Transportation

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt festival in 2016.

The Limits Of The Billionaire Imagination Are Everyone’s Problem

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


Nicholas Russell

Video Games

Sometimes It’s Fun To Be A Weird Guy With A Hand For A Head

Kelsey McKinney

They Ruined The Damn Condiment Island

Albert Burneko

Mohammad bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia

This Is So Stupid

Do You Not See That The City Of The Future Must Be A Straight Line, You Oaf, You Absolute Doofus

The San Francisco skyling obscured by thick smoke.

The Future