Innovation

08 Dec

In a nutshell (TL;DR)Scientists who built the atomic bomb later regretted the harm it caused; today, tech leaders feel similar remorse about digital tools like social media, AI, and data tracking. Deepfakes blur truth, “surveillance capitalism” trades our privacy for profit, biased algorithms repeat old prejudices, and screen addictive apps hurt mental health. Some experts even fear super intelligent AI...

01 Jul

In a nutshell (TL;DR)In 1945, as World War II ended and a new atomic era loomed, scientist Vannevar Bush shifted his focus from wartime technologies like radar and the bomb to amplifying human intellect. On July 1945 he published “As We May Think” in The Atlantic, proposing the “Memex,” a desk‑sized device that would let users store, link and retrieve information through associative “trails”—a conceptual blueprint...

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