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My car broke down.
Mar 5, 2023

January 2023

Will technology create a better future?
“I really do believe when ingenuity gets involved, when invention gets involved, when people get determined and when passion comes out, when they make…
Jan 15, 2023

December 2022

Garbage in, garbage out
“If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” The members of parliament asking such a question clearly don’t understand…
Dec 18, 2022
Humans out of the loop
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by
Dec 11, 2022
A clockwork butterfly
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by
Dec 4, 2022

November 2022

Copy and paste
Copy and paste is probably the most impactful productivity tool in the modern workplace.
Nov 27, 2022
The soft power of civil society
The North Wind and the Sun had a difference of opinion.
Nov 20, 2022
Perpetual motion machines
Bhāskara II was a smart man. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India. Also known as Bhāskarāchārya, he reached an understanding…
Nov 13, 2022
How complex systems succeed
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Nov 6, 2022

October 2022

Be more fox
Can you explain why the world is the way it is?
Oct 30, 2022
Down with dogmatism
There was once a old farmer who had spent many years tending his crops.
Oct 23, 2022
Growth at all costs
Human population is expected to reach 8 billion later this year.
Oct 16, 2022
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