Picture a business trip in 2035. You tell an AI assistant that you need to meet a client in Paris, and within seconds it has decided whether the meeting justifies the trip, checked your company’s travel policy, compared air and rail options, calculated the emissions, booked a compliant hotel, arranged local transportation, and blocked recovery time on your calendar. At the airport, a digital identity stored on your phone could handle much of the documentation that once required passports, boarding passes, and repeated identity checks.

Most of the world has been explored and, thanks to the Internet and cell phones, most of it is connected. But there still exist, hidden away in remote locations, societies of people whose lives are very different from “modern” people. The Loba of Nepal are one such society.

Discover ancient artifacts found thousands of miles from where they were made, from Roman glass in Japan and African ivory in England to a Buddha unearthed in Sweden and Indian gems buried at Sutton Hoo.