For years, the conversation about global population has been about our impending inability to feed ourselves, because there’ll be too many of us. Then the narrative changed to the reverse; a population implosion and the average age of humankind reaching into the non-productive 60’s. These have been the headline grabbers. And they’ve been legitimate, too. […]
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Sorry, but that headline should read ‘head to the hill’ not ‘head the bill’. Because that’s where Elon and Mark are going. To Capitol Hill, to advise the lawmakers on how to deal with AI. But given their recent, rather silly pugilistic proclamations about a cage fight, what do you expect? So what could be […]
Karan Bilimoria, life peer in the House of Lords, is undoubtedly India’s greatest ambassador. His name is synonymous with everything that’s positive on the subcontinent. Recently, he was captured on film during a UK parliamentary debate, with data that confirmed that the India economy is like an express train. Here’s a recount of that data: […]
Right now, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) is considering a Chinese bid to build a nuclear power plant in the Kingdom. He’s deadly serious about this, as are the Chinese. But according to the Wall Street Journal, he is sending a clear signal to Washington that unless they drop their non-proliferation stance, he will […]
Maybe the Alliance will Actually Achieve Something Now If I walk out into my garden and look towards the north west, I can just see in the distance the location of the BRICS conference, where Saudi Arabia has been invited to join BRICS. It sits smack bang in the middle of the richest square kilometre […]
On August 16th, the Cupertino-based company reversed its decision to move the call end button from bottom center to bottom right with the iOS 17 update. iPhone users expressed unprecedented relief. The collective fear was that thumbs could be irreversibly damaged. The tearing of the Tenar muscles connecting thumb to palm was the main concern. […]
More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci put pen to paper and recorded the future. He invented the tank, the helicopter, the automatic rifle, the diving suit and the parachute. And this was just the tip of his particular iceberg. Da Vinci’s thoughts, diagrams and art were so extraordinary they were considered heretical. They […]
In what should come as no surprise to anyone, the Vatican has voiced its concerns about AI. Commenting on its ‘disruptive possibilities and ambivalent threats’ Pope Francis urges caution and responsibility. ‘Pope comments on AI’ is hardly an explosive exposé, but a quick character study of the man behind the caution will reveal that his […]
I was inspired by the recent Chinese initiative to crack down on children who browse all day on social media. So I put on my investigative journalist’s hat and met with Joanna (obviously an alias), who has since become a life raft in a sea of despair. This is her story. Hello, my name is […]
In the middle of last week, the Federal Reserve Chairman pointed to indicators which showed that the long-anticipated recession was a non-event. The US GDP was on a trajectory with a near 2% growth figure. When coupled with better than expected employment figure projections and the containing of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, little wonder […]
