Read The Innovators

Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.

Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.

Carmack and Romero build id Software and Doom; the video-game industry's origin story.

Facebook's founding as a deposition, scored by Trent Reznor.

The world's oldest and largest spaceport.

What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.

Steven Levy on the MIT hackers, the homebrew club and the game makers who built the culture.

Watch the 2023 Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.