In October 2022, when the United States quietly put China’s innovation under constraint by tightening the screws on …
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Technology
The Enchantment of 1843: How Ada Lovelace Could Be the First to Have Thought of AI
by Hermann Rohrby Hermann RohrIn the dim glow of an oil lamp on a winter evening in 1843, a 27-year-old woman paused …
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Technology
How the Technology Trends of 2026 Could Reshape Work, Governance, and Everyday Life
by Hermann Rohrby Hermann RohrIn the waning months of 2025, as quarterly earnings reports and holiday-season product launches monopolized headlines, a quieter, …
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Technology
The ‘Doorman Fallacy’: Why Careless Adoption of AI Backfires So Easily
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesArtificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming commonplace, despite statistics showing that only approximately 7% to 13% (depending on …
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Culture & Community
The Mark in the Machine: Deepfakes, AI, and the Crisis of Human Authenticity
by Hermann Rohrby Hermann RohrFrom Revelation’s “mark of the beast” to blockchain ID and deepfake detection, humanity’s quest for verification becomes a …
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Digital IDs: From Social Credit to Social Collapse — How the World Is Sleepwalking Into Algorithmic Exclusion
by Hermann Rohrby Hermann RohrDigital IDs are transforming how governments and corporations identify, track, and rank citizens. Promoted as tools for security …
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Technology
We Teach Young People to Write. In the Age of AI, We Must Teach Them How to See
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesFrom the earliest years of school, children begin learning how to express ideas in different ways. Lines across …
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TechnologyFeatured
AI Systems Can Easily Lie and Deceive Us — a Fact Researchers Are Painfully Aware Of
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman asks the ship’s artificial intelligence, HAL 9000, …
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Politicians Are Pushing AI as a Quick Fix to Australia’s Housing Crisis. They’re Risking Another Robodebt
by Troy Oakesby Troy Oakes“This is a game changer.” That’s how Paul Scully, New South Wales Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, …
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Science & Tech
7 Shuffles to Chaos: How a Russian Math Feud Shaped Nuclear Weapons, Google, and the Fate of Free Will
by Hermann Rohrby Hermann RohrHow many times do you need to shuffle a deck of cards before it’s truly random? (About seven …