In the ongoing buzz following the launch of ChatGPT, people are once again predicting a near-future singularity, when artificial intelligence will match and then exceed […] Read More
Category: Book Review
“Today…every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment […] Read More
Democracy is withering. A majority of people in democracies like America, France and others believe that corruption is widespread in government. How has this come […] Read More
In his book How Economics Explains the World, author Andrew Leigh describes events that affected the course of world history. These range widely from discussions […] Read More
Psychologist and professional grandfather Dr Bob Rich offered this advice to people suffering from climate anxiety: “Do the best you can, then don’t worry”. His […] Read More
With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, and a looming USA-China conflict over Taiwan, one might ask what factors lead to war especially those that […] Read More
We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and […] Read More
The collapse of society on Easter Island is an oft-repeated cautionary tale of man-made ecocide, which blames an ignorant indigenous population for deforesting the island […] Read More
We’re all busy people nowadays. We’re busy churning out reports or emails or text messages. We skim through incoming messages, reading the ‘important’ ones and […] Read More
Read it! One of the best works of literature I have encountered. The Overstory by Richard Powers follows nine individuals with disparate backgrounds who, to […] Read More