Apr 25, 2024
Imagine the Indian elections in 2052 taking just 5 minutes to process, rather than the 6 weeks it takes this year. The vision is of digital first, ubiquitous, secure, personal technology connections in every sector and industry, reducing friction, demolishing time scales, flattening barriers.
Apr 18, 2024
Ageing musicians still touring, and ageing fans still wanting to go to their concerts, might prefer an afternoon start time rather than waiting until 9pm or later for the main event. It's not just Festivals that should schedule afternoon concerts - maybe every band should do so.
The theme of this week's "jump into the...
Apr 11, 2024
All plants extract minerals and nutrients from the soil they're growing in, but some appear to be able to extract metals as well, or at least metal ions that we can in turn extract from the plants. If we can do this at scale, we can use phytomining to get the metals we need to build the batteries we use to power...
Apr 4, 2024
As we watch elections in 2024 spanning nearly 70 countries and 4.2 billion people, one thing is clear: the current systems are not working. Voters are not happy, and have little enthusiasm for the politicians they can choose between (if they have any real choices at all).
<P>So, come with me to the future, and consider...
Mar 28, 2024
ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative
AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with
our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our
devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask
them to do.
<P>Rabbit R1 was launched to much fanfare in...