Thinking about the future can mean many different things. Someone might speculate about artificial intelligence transforming society, imagine humans living far longer lives, consider the economic effects of automation, …
Most educational technology is built around applications and cloud services rather than around the computer itself. A student signs into a platform, completes work, generates data, and often sends …
Human knowledge has always depended upon storage. Clay tablets, libraries, printing presses, microfilm, hard drives, websites, and cloud servers have each helped preserve information beyond the moment when it …
Some of the most interesting developments in artificial intelligence are happening where AI intersects with other fields. Computer vision meets language. Machine learning meets molecular biology. Robotics meets simulation. …
Educational wikis have always had an interesting promise. They can function as shared spaces for learning, teaching, research, experimentation, and the gradual organization of knowledge. Unlike a traditional textbook, …
Human life is organized around needs, aims, relationships, constraints, obligations, environments, and the continual requirement to adapt. When something important is missing, blocked, threatened, deteriorating, or in conflict, a …
IPFS and Arweave are often mentioned in the same conversations about decentralized publishing, censorship resistance, and preserving information outside of traditional platforms. They overlap in some important ways, but …
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are increasingly becoming the backbone of industries, the prospect of a post-scarcity society, where abundance is the norm rather than …
Git is already decentralized in one important sense. Anyone who clones a repository receives a copy of its history, and anyone can create a fork without asking a central …
AI agents are becoming more capable, more persistent, and more connected to the tools people actually use. They can write code, manage files, monitor systems, communicate across platforms, and …
