Author: Michael Ten
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 …
