Have you ever noticed that the most useful technology starts to feel invisible? Think about it—you don’t marvel at electricity when you flip a switch. You don’t celebrate plumbing when you turn on the tap. These technologies became ambient; they faded into the background of our lives, working silently to make everything else possible. That’s…
Let’s start with a confession. I’ve yelled at Siri. I’ve sighed in frustration at a customer service chatbot. And I’ve felt a strange, hollow disappointment when a Netflix recommendation just… missed the mark. Why? Because these interactions feel like talking to a wall—a very well-informed wall, but a wall nonetheless. What’s missing is emotional intelligence. That…
Let me tell you a story about creativity. For centuries, we’ve told ourselves a specific narrative: that art is uniquely human. That it requires a soul, suffering, a spark of divine inspiration. That it emerges from lived experience, from the tremor in a hand holding a brush, from the ache in a heart translating emotion…
Here’s something that should keep you up at night: right now, in heavily secured labs from California to China, scientists are building machines that could break the fundamental locks that protect our digital world. And I’m not talking about better hackers or smarter code—I’m talking about physics. You know that little padlock icon in your…
Let me ask you a question: when you think of 5G, what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, you probably think: “Faster phone downloads.” Maybe you remember the marketing hype—the promise of downloading a full HD movie in seconds. Or perhaps you recall the bizarre conspiracy theories about 5G towers and… well, we…