The VERGE 2021 — 5 Years Into The Future With 10 Top Leaders

Intro by @reckless - What does the future hold? 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.