Gilded Edge: the namecard's reign

Singapore

IF the future were a space you could occupy, Antony Lewis would be living in it. The 31-year-old works in the bitcoin industry - a field that is so fast-moving, it sometimes laps itself.

Yet, on his desk, sits a positive relic: a plastic bureau with four drawers bearing hand-written labels. These drawers house the deluge of namecards that Mr Lewis (and white-collar workers like him) are doomed to empty out of their pockets after a day of meeting strangers.