The future of everything – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-04-16T19:36:37+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/5813818 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Mike Case <![CDATA[Our future government will work more like Amazon]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/23/6058299/our-future-government-will-work-more-like-amazon 2014-08-23T14:00:03-04:00 2014-08-23T14:00:03-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Vox Media product team coordinator Mike Case.

There is a lot of government in the United States. Several hundred federal agencies, 535 voting members in two houses of Congress, more than 90,000 state and local governments, and over 20 million Americans involved in public service.

We say we have a government for and by the people. But the way American government conducts its day-to-day business does not feel like anything we, the peop …

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]]> Ryan Gantz <![CDATA[The future of self-driving cars: welcome to Autocon 2035]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6057071/the-future-of-self-driving-cars-welcome-to-autocon-2035 2026-04-16T15:36:37-04:00 2014-08-22T14:46:29-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Vox Media's director of user experience Ryan Gantz.

Good evening ladies, gentlemen, and fellow Sentients! Welcome to the 20th annual Autocon, presented by Google Motors and Lockheed-Uber. I know you're all excited for new product demos, and to learn what the pending merger of our two companies means for your job and future. But to kick things off, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at a few important milestones from the …

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]]> Dan Rubenstein <![CDATA[In the future, we’ll all be like my grandfather]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6057049/in-the-future-well-all-be-like-my-grandfather 2014-08-22T14:21:44-04:00 2014-08-22T14:21:44-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome SBNation producer and host Dan Rubenstein.

As essentially impossible as it is to be completely encouraged about the future of media or technology, there may be nothing that drives my optimism and ability to (hopefully) put things in their proper perspective than my grandfather Ben, who passed away the better part of 20 years ago.

His life spanned many, if not all of the huge cultural shifts of the 20th century, and he toed that fanta …

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]]> Russ Frushtick <![CDATA[Will owning a FitBit finally make me cool?]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6056703/will-owning-a-fitbit-finally-make-me-cool 2014-08-22T11:20:40-04:00 2014-08-22T11:20:40-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Polygon executive producer Russ Frushtick.

In the early 1990s, the power of the slap bracelet was unquestioned. It was a dangerous tool, wielded by the most popular and fashionable members of my second grade class. Wannabes would cluster around, ogling the latest acquisition, be it a sparkly, hypnotic number or one featuring the likeness of a preferred Ninja Turtle. I was drawn in by the fame of it, a wearable social weapon with which …

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]]> Leslie Price <![CDATA[Screw perfection: the new normal on social media is just normal]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6056251/screw-perfection-the-new-normal-on-social-media-is-just-normal 2014-08-22T10:06:27-04:00 2014-08-22T10:06:27-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Racked national editor Leslie Price.

Aesthetically driven, the fashion, beauty, and health industries have glommed on to Instagram and other visual-sharing platforms, with users uploading streams of inspirational, FOMO-inducing photos. Whether it's hot dog legs on the beach; a pretty manicure; or a latte with a designer handbag artfully arranged next to it, these unblemished vignettes play right into our collective insecurities. Let's …

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]]> Christopher Grant <![CDATA[Why ‘P.T.’ is more exciting than ‘Silent Hills,’ and the future of the video game demo]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/21/6039889/why-pt-is-more-exciting-than-silent-hills-and-the-future-of-the-video-game-demo 2014-08-21T15:19:31-04:00 2014-08-21T15:19:31-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Polygon editor-in-chief Chris Grant.

A mysterious new horror game for PlayStation 4 - simply titled P.T. - was revealed last week during Sony's Gamescom press conference in Germany. Not only that, it was in development by the wholly unknown 7780s Studio… and a demo was available right then on the PlayStation Store. Something seemed off.

Does this sound familiar?

If you follow the work of Mr. Hideo Kojima, the celebrated game designe …

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]]> Amanda Kludt <![CDATA[Can the restaurants of the future be good to people?]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/21/6053351/can-the-restaurants-of-the-future-be-good-to-people 2014-08-21T12:56:53-04:00 2014-08-21T12:56:53-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Eater editor-in-chief Amanda Kludt.

The future of the restaurant industry - if all the startups and venture firms have their way - will be devoid of inefficiencies. Apps like Foursquare, Yelp, and many others aim to improve discovery, getting diners to the food they want when and where they want it. A swath of apps and sites - OpenTable, SeatMe, City Eats, Resy, Zurvu, and more - are battling for dominance in for paid and unpaid reser …

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]]> Joe Alicata <![CDATA[The future of the home screen isn’t about apps]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/21/6043573/the-future-of-the-home-screen 2014-08-21T09:28:26-04:00 2014-08-21T09:28:26-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Joe Alicata, Vox Media's director of video product.

"Have you seen this?"

"This" could be anything; a song, a video clip, a great gallery of photos. Regardless, if that seemingly innocuous question leads me to an app store where I search for 10 minutes through 50 variations of the same name and keyword, then wait for the download, open the app, and finally find the content, we have massively failed at moving media consumption and dis …

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]]> Cory Williams <![CDATA[I’m the victim of a Spotify bully]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6049069/im-a-victim-of-a-spotify-bully 2014-08-20T15:38:11-04:00 2014-08-20T15:38:11-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Vox Media senior support manager Cory Williams.

Spencer Hall has been been laughing at me for weeks.

Spencer qualifies highly on my list of coworkers that I am genuinely excited to see in the Vox Media office. Having not seen him in months, I spotted him rummaging through our snack bin in the kitchen, and approached to say hello.

Usually, Spencer would make some lousy joke in a terrible fake Texas accent about Arizona State's head f …

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]]> Lockhart Steele <![CDATA[The retro-futuristic future of blogging]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6049259/the-future-of-blogging 2014-08-20T14:30:04-04:00 2014-08-20T14:30:04-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Lockhart Steele, founder of the Curbed Media network and Vox Media's editorial director.

I've been thinking about ecosystems lately. As we're digging deeper into YouTube at Vox Media, I'm coming to appreciate the ways YouTube personalities interact with each other, recommending each other's work with in-video shout-outs. It feels a lot like the early days of blogging. Back then, linking to and recommending each others' posts was the w …

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