This 10Things issue we explore the shifting ground beneath beauty, intelligence, and identity. From the filtered perfection of AI-altered faces to Nora Turato’s examination of language in the age of LLMs, we’re asking what’s real, what’s changing, and what’s next. Mark Zuckerberg claims social media is over, while thinkers and makers imagine new futures with “spells and vibes.” We examine circular fashion’s pragmatic turn, the price of retail therapy, and the limits of collaboration. Plus: the sensory world of Cig Harvey, philosophical takes on color, and evolving ideas about intelligence itself.
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1. Reclaim Imperfect Faces
Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.
During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
At the heart of RADAR's 2025 focus is a simple but significant question: how do we build infrastructure that helps people cross from yearning for better futures to actually building them?
8. Circular Fashion – From Environmental Imperative To Practical Necessity
As the industry weathers rising tariffs, strained supply chains, and a cost-of-living crisis, circularity could become less of a compliance exercise and more of a practical adjustment.
9. Are colors objective? These philosophers think so
Our ability to determine whether objects are colored the same or differently and the indispensable roles they play in science suggest that colors are as real and objective as length and temperature.
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
— T.S. Eliot
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