by Aseem Gupta | Jun 24, 2023 | Narrative, Media & Storytelling
Marvel fatigue did not happen because audiences suddenly stopped liking superheroes. That explanation is too easy. If people were simply tired of capes, masks, powers, and comic-book worlds, then Spider-Man: No Way Home, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Deadpool...
by Aseem Gupta | May 23, 2022 | Business, Innovation & Industry
Streaming was supposed to save us from cable. No long contracts. No bloated channel bundles. No waiting for shows to air at a fixed time. No paying for dozens of channels you never watched. Just open an app, choose what you want, and watch it instantly. For a while,...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 11, 2016 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
For almost half a century, the world lived with a strange contradiction. The United States and the Soviet Union never fought each other in a direct, declared war. No American army marched on Moscow. No Soviet army invaded Washington. Yet the fear of war was...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 10, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
The Great Emu War sounds like something invented by the internet. Australia, a country already famous for deadly snakes, giant spiders, crocodiles, kangaroos, and animals that seem specifically designed to test human confidence, once sent soldiers with machine guns to...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 9, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
The American Revolution did not begin as a clean, heroic march toward independence. It began as an argument inside an empire. For more than a century, Britain’s mainland colonies in North America had lived in an uneasy middle ground. They were British subjects. They...
