It [AI) exists in a vacuum of data and doesn’t wonder about its place in the universe because it doesn’t occupy a place. It occupies a server.

The irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI
WRITER Mario Garcia
Monocle, July, 2026

The difference is that text is a low-quality abstraction, while tactile experience offers a high-bandwidth education: in gravity, spatial constraints and physics. AI could, for instance, describe a glass falling off a table but it can’t feel or understand the physical stakes.

The irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI
WRITER Mario Garcia
Monocle, July, 2026

For all the alarmism surrounding artificial intelligence, the human mind is unlikely to be superceded altogether. Instead, the nuance, empathy and lived experience that we offer will become premium commodities.

The irreplaceable value of humanity in the age of AI
WRITER Mario Garcia
Monocle, July, 2026

“Industry sacrificed the city’s identity,… It devastated the environment, degraded the air and river, and hid the city’s heritage under a layer of dirt.”

Mayor Mariví Monteserin Rodríguez
Avilés

Spain’s newest art initiative Bienal Climática bridges Avilés’s industrial past with its ecological future
Agnish Ray
Monocle June, 2026

… the person posing the question must remain responsible for the answer…

AI won’t replace jobs humans are good at. Now people just need to prove their worth
Josh Fehnert
Monocle, June, 2026

“The problem is not that children exist on social media. It’s that social-media companies have built platforms that are unsafe by design.”

Kerry Moscogiuri, chief executive of Amnesty International UK
The UK’s under-16 social-media ban won’t make Big Tech
Yo Zushi
Monocle June 2026

Learning data does not merely record what students know. It records what they are becoming and the process of getting there. It captures confusion, failure, dependence, recovery, growth, confidence and vulnerability. It is closer to a developmental archive than a customer record.

The University Now Lives Inside Software
Rod B. McNaughton
Empowering Entrepreneurs | Shaping Thriving Ecosystems
Linkedin
May 15, 2026

“What we are dealing with is a moral trauma, which is a new concept: you live all your life and you know this is right and this is wrong – and then you get to the front lines and everything is mixed.”

Olga Rudnieva NGO Superhumans CEO! Ukraine
‘What we are dealing with is a moral trauma’: How NGO Superhumans is helping to rehabilitate battle-scarred Ukrainians

WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026

Good cities make room for everyone. They also allow space for myriad celebrations and let people thrive somewhere in the fuzzy middle.

From the Pope to Bad Bunny, ‘Madrileños’ have plenty to put their faith in this weekend
Liam Aldous
Monocle
JUNE 3, 2026

“But it’s really symbolic of where the world is going to go. If Ukraine falls to the aggression of Russia, it’s going to give a lesson not just to Russia but to other countries about what they can and can’t get away with.”

US senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona
At the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, Ukraine looks increasingly like the leader of the free world

WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026