Fifty years ago, Bell Labs pioneered the collision of technology and art with its EAT programme. Now it’s back. Little Atoms spoke to Bell Labs President Marcus Weldon about the future of art and communication
Douglas Boyd Buchanan spent a lifetime in search of the great innovation
Architects and planners developed a new ideal for living in postwar Britain, but the dream died amid corruption, incompetence and cheapness, John Grindrod tells Little Atoms
The world had 18 months to get used to Donald Trump, before the shock of the election result; it turns out what we weren’t ready for was his apartment. Just days after winning, the president-elect and his would-be British middleman, Nigel Farage, stood beaming together in Trump’s private elevator – a lift so gold, so garish, so glaring, that it could have come with an epilepsy warning. The internet shielded its eyes and began to get the picture.