McKinsey Quarterly: Digital Edition

60th birthday edition: Technology

Since 1964, the McKinsey Quarterly has been delivering our most distinctive, crosscutting insights. We’re delighted to welcome you to our yearlong celebration of its 60th birthday.

Each issue in this commemorative year is dedicated to a major force shaping the future of business—starting with our first edition, on technology—and, as usual, issues are offered as an immersive online reading experience. Plus, don’t miss special interactive features and themed bonus compilations of Quarterly classics formerly available only in print.

Enjoy these benefits and more with a free McKinsey Quarterly membership, which includes email alerts as soon as new issues are published.

New! Password-protected PDF downloads available to signed-in members via a button under each issue.

This membership also includes exclusive access to all past digital Quarterly issues and downloads of our 100 most important reports in the McKinsey Insights Store. And the Quarterly’s web-based Re:think essays and Five-Fifty briefings will continue to be available to you as always.

We hope you enjoy this experience and welcome your feedback at newideas@mckinsey.com.

Sixty years of innovation: Key moments in business technology

From semiconductors to cell phones to generative AI, here are 25 breakthroughs that changed business forever.
View interactive timeline

McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on technology

This 250-page downloadable bonus collection of classic articles from the Quarterly, previously only available in archival print copies, chronicles how discussions about technology in the business world have evolved—and how much they’ve stayed the same—over the past six decades.
Dive into the special issue

Behind the scenes with the Q

In this “behind the scenes” film, we go on set with the creators of the ferrofluid imagery running throughout the issue to see how they transformed a unique material used in hard drives and loudspeakers into magazine art.