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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz used the phrase “problems in living” to describe many of the personal, social, moral, and practical difficulties that people face. A problem in living might involve …
For decades, conversations about the future have often centered on bigger institutions, larger companies, and more centralized systems. Many people assume that progress naturally leads toward greater concentration of …
When people experience profound emotional distress, one of the first questions often asked is whether they have a mental illness. That question has become so common that many people …
Universal Basic Income has become one of the most widely discussed economic ideas of the past decade. Supporters see it as a way to reduce poverty, improve financial security, …
