What emerging signals, patterns provide a spark of insight or glimpses of change to come?

One interesting signal we were tracking back at the time of making Issue 1 was "digital nomadism" or the new kinds of work configurations enabled by the web. This reality has obviously accelerated considerably since we first wrote about it.

What was the role of digital tools in the evolution of the architectural design process? Archaeology of the Digital, a transdisciplinary exhibition at Montreal’s CCA (2012) attempted to craft an answer.

Berlin is a manifestation of all that The Alpine Review thinks about: It lives the notions of a flat, networked world, of constant remixing of ideas, of crafts and technology and culture intersections. Its only natural that it was our city in focus for Issue 1.

What makes the global culture industry fall for some countries and not others?

The new loosely organized online lobbyists are becoming a political force. Are they succeeding?

Is the risk of losing digital identities in a flash really a fair trade for infinite access? Or should we all just defer to the old shoebox to keep photos of grandma safe?

The gongkai phone reveals important insights into a unique Chinese ecosystem of creation.

Always pushing computing capacity further, Google has now invested in a quantum computer.

What happens when the wardens of digital information (and the all-too-human people behind it) accumulate too much data?