In our second issue of the year, our focus is connections – from the increasingly human bonds we are forming with technology, to brain-computer interfaces helping to extend our lives.

We dig into how our increased interactions with ChatGPT – and its delve-filled dialect – may change the way we speak. London startup Quantum Motion shows off its minuscule yet momentous quantum chips. And in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and London, fintech platforms are connecting strangers to create communal savings accounts – digitising a timeworn tradition.

We explore what our phone-less future may look like, and how haptics will restore the power of touch in the spatial-computing age. In Boston, MIT’s Renée Richardson Gosline shows how slowing down our interactions with AI can actually make us more efficient. And, as AI starts making decisions about what we want, we investigate the future of human desire and how we can keep our agency in an AI agentic world.

Digital Frontier is inherently collectible: our awe-inspiring illustrations and modern-yet-nostalgic layouts are complemented with premium paper stock and treatments. It will be published quarterly.