Eugenia Perozo

Once upon a time, people in the tech industry said, “Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.” You could experiment and bet on a smaller player. But why would you when you could buy what was widely accepted as the best product on the market? In 2025, that adage applies far more to Nvidia and the semiconductor chips that are set to power AI’s entry into every corner of our lives. According to Steven Schuchart, GlobalData’s enterprise networking principal analyst, “nobody can touch them right now.”


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The early 2010s for a girl was overwhelming; there was Snapchat, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, AskFm, Youtube, Skype, and the - not yet so derided - phone call. Famously teenage years are filled with insecurities, particularly for women and girls: adolescence claws at a sense of self to be afforded safety and identity. And back then, we were given so many ways to claw, dig and cultivate ourselves. On our phones, we could change what we looked like physically but also curate the ‘cool gi...

When questioned on what led to the US capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have homed in on two drivers: the country’s large oil reserves and the US’ desire to reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere.  


Rubio focused on the latter: “We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we are not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversarie...

By the time consumers get their hands on a brand-new product, the natural resources and human labour that go into its production are long forgotten.


Distance, time and marketing abstract the long supply chains that enable the flows of goods and services. However, even what feels like the simple act of engaging with an AI chatbot is only made possible by a global system that encompasses everything from cobalt mines in Africa, to data labellers in the Philippines, to the sunny California headqu...