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How to Turn Air into Water and Other African Technologies

The imminent threat of AI going rogue. Weaponry with freshly demonic kill power. Untrammelled illegal data collection. Wouldn’t it be nice to draw a line through 2023, and sigh with relief that it’s over? Well, the number of bad tech thresholds we crossed last year rules that out. Tightly fastened seatbelts would seem to be […]

Five Times in 2023 The News Hit Us in The Heart

Don’t you find that sometimes, you don’t have to have any connection to events you read in the news to feel personally involved? We looked back on the last year’s stories to remind ourselves of those moments when the news stirred our hearts, evoked our anger, filled us with pride, darkened us with dread or […]

Let’s Give CNN a Big Hand for this Choice.

CNN BUSINESS CEO of the Year Satya Nadella He doesn’t act like a rampaging schizophrenic in the media. He hasn’t climbed aboard his personal phallic symbol for an attention- seeking orbital joy ride. And he has no intention of threatening to climb into a cage to exchange blows with above-mentioned schizophrenic. But what Satya Nadella […]

A Future for Our Planet. Requiem for Astronaut Mary Cleave

A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]

Linda Yaccarino. Tech’s Biggest Loser in 2023

Remember Ted Turner? He was the media darling of the seventies, eighties and early nineties. He created the revolutionary TV news concept called CNN. Then he bought the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise and turned it into a World Series champion. He even skippered an America’s Cup victory – then, the highest profile yacht race in […]