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How AI is Stealing Our Autonomy And What to Begin Doing About It
As a technological tool, artificial intelligence (AI) can free us from trivial or overly complicated...
Will AI Replace Inventors?: Computing vs Seeing
Does generative artificial intelligence (AI), including Large Language Models (LLMs), signal the end of the...
Securing Elections with Blockchain?: Back to the Future with Paper Ballots
In recent years, contested elections have motivated political pundits, think tanks and technology experts to...
Need for Campus Climates Fueling Innovation
The unprecedented global prosperity over the past 200 years has been termed “The Great Enrichment”...
The Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Unleashing AI & Community Innovation
During the past 100 years, a global revolution was waged and won. The Third Agricultural...
The Times They are a-Changin’: AI’s Powerful Winds Sweeping Across Higher Education
Higher education is often in a state of flux. Each year, teachers pour over their...
Cybersecurity & Insurance Law: Warlike-Action Exclusion & the Merck
June 27, 2017, marks the day of the most aggressive cyberattack in history. The NotPetya...
Intentional Use of Social Media: Taking our Attention Back from the Algorithm
Can you read this article from start to finish without picking up your phone? The...
Unplugging Growth? AI, the Cloud & Electricity Demands
The year 2024 will go down as the pivot when the growth in U.S. electricity...
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History’s Digital Black Hole: Challenges to Preserving Records in the iPhone Era
Since the 17th century, newspapers have functioned as important sources of information for historians. Beginning in the mid-19th century, photographs became another crucial primary...
AI will Improve, NOT Destroy, Our Jobs: Workforce Challenges in the AI Economy
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, conversations around artificial intelligence (AI) have exploded. Experts and non-experts alike are making predictions, mostly world...
Rebalancing Our Brain: The Crisis of Meaning in the Age of AI
The brain is divided down the middle, with the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex attending to the world differently. The right hemisphere vigilantly...
Innovative Approaches to Destroying Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
For the past 70 years, herbicides have been used to control weeds in agriculture.i This is a major factor enabling farming to greatly increase...
Cryptocurrency Scams: What to Watch For
Investment/Romance Scam
Michael had always wanted to invest in cryptocurrency, which he found interesting but didn’t know where to begin. One day, a woman on...
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Path to Artificial General Intelligence
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has inspired new visions of our future, many of which...
CBDC vs BITCOIN
PRIVACY & FREEDOM OR TOTAL CONTROL?
On April 10, 2020, there was a transfer of 161,500 Bitcoins (worth $1.1 billion USD at the time) from...
Net Zero: Path to Zero Growth
Curious minds may wonder if the phrase “net zero” was cooked up by media consultants to evoke the Coke Zero brand, something nice, desirable...
New Books From Our Contributors
New Books: The Cloud Revolution
The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming.
New Books: Future Peace
Robert Latiff urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and makes an impassioned plea for peace as a military officer who spent his career preparing for war.
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