Brave New World

Trusting AI in International Trade — the Road to Failure, or the Future?

Lord Waverley dons his techie hat and has a closer look at the potential applications of artificial intelligence... Generative AI…

9 months ago

AI Set to Drive Nail in Coffin of Long Stagnation

From Excited to Ecstatic: Expectations of AI Drive Perception Recognised as one of the world’s most prestigious management consulting firms,…

10 months ago

Data-Sharing: Privacy Agreement to Limit Prying by US Intelligence

Europeans can now complain if they think intelligence services gathered their data — and it’s business as usual for tech…

10 months ago

Video Gaming Firm Forced to Cut Staff — Despite Cult-like Following for a Franchise that Just Won’t Die

Q: How do get 1,000 Pikachu on an aeroplane? A: You Pokémon. Hal Williams reports on the enduring — or…

10 months ago

Technology, Turtles, Subway Systems and Flying Men — Delivery is Moving on Apace

Pie-from-the-sky is the festival food delivery dream for 2023 by HAL WILLIAMS New technology always takes a bit of bedding-in…

10 months ago

AI: Lies, Surprises, and a Risk of our Own Extinction — With Some Interesting Attributes

The bots are here: ‘It’s as if aliens had landed, and nobody noticed because they are fluent in English...’ ChatGPT…

11 months ago

Global Warning: Asia is Critical to Addressing Climate Change

Asia emits about half of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions and that figure is set to increase if the…

11 months ago

Championing CBDCs — Who’s Who in the Race?

Central banks front and centre, of course — but little is straightforward in the biggest currency jump we’ve faced since…

11 months ago

Asian Development Bank: Decarbonisation ‘Won’t Work Unless it’s Equitable’

The transition to global net zero to address climate change must be both ambitious and fair. Otherwise, it will fail…

12 months ago

A Sci-fi Author’s View on the Rise (and Control) of Human Population

There are eight billion people on Earth, and that could rise to 10 billion by the end of the century.…

1 year ago