09:32Coalition talks collapse as budget deadline looms07:32The quiet redrawing of the electoral map05:32Central bank holds rates as inflation cools03:32Inside the $40bn deal that reshaped the industry01:32The models are getting smaller — and that changes everything23:32Chip supply eases, but the bottleneck just moved21:32A retrospective that finally does her justice19:32The novel everyone is arguing about09:32Coalition talks collapse as budget deadline looms07:32The quiet redrawing of the electoral map05:32Central bank holds rates as inflation cools03:32Inside the $40bn deal that reshaped the industry01:32The models are getting smaller — and that changes everything23:32Chip supply eases, but the bottleneck just moved21:32A retrospective that finally does her justice19:32The novel everyone is arguing about
Two years of shortage taught the industry the wrong lesson, some engineers argue. The next crunch is already visible.
By Tom Fielding·· 1 min read
It is tempting to read the moment as a rupture. It is more accurate, and more useful, to read it as an acceleration of trends that were already underway.
The institutions built for a slower world are straining, and the people who run them know it. The question is whether reform arrives by design or by crisis.
Either way, the coming months will tell us a great deal about which story we are actually living in.
