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Universal Basic Services is the idea that everyone should get free or near-free access to a basket of essentials — health, education, housing, transport…
A polycrisis is several distinct crises hitting at once and feeding each other, so the whole is worse than the sum of its parts.…
Coined by Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias, data colonialism describes how a handful of US and Chinese tech giants extract human life as data…
When the state lets an algorithm decide who gets a welfare benefit, a loan or a place in a job queue, a single line…
France legislated it in 2017, Australia in 2024, and India's own bill has lapsed twice. The right to disconnect and the four-day week are…
Shoshana Zuboff named it: an economic order that claims your experience as free raw material, mines a 'behavioural surplus', and sells predictions about you…
Yanis Varoufakis argues capitalism is dead — replaced by techno-feudalism, where Big Tech platforms act as digital fiefs that charge cloud rent and turn…
The quantum internet moves quantum information — qubits — using entanglement and quantum key distribution instead of ordinary bits, promising communication that is secure…
Humanoid robots have stepped out of the lab and onto the factory floor — Unitree shipped over 5,500 in 2025, Figure's robots clock real…
A digital twin is a living virtual copy of a physical object, process or system, fed by real-time sensor data so engineers can simulate,…
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is AI that could match or beat humans across virtually every cognitive task — not just one. Here is the…
Generative AI answers your prompt. Agentic AI sets out to finish the job — planning, calling tools and taking multi-step actions on its own.…