Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.
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Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake Technology has been tangled up in modern life for a long time, but the entwinement of Big Tech, as an industry, with our daily habits—everything from tracking friends to hiring cabs—is new.
Historian-folklorist Adrienne Mayor reminds us that the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata already envision mechanical warriors and self-moving chariots forged by the engineer-god Viśvakarma.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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