Signals from the future

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24 July 2025

Food aid outsourced to Amazon

The truth is, there’s more than enough food in the world, it’s just unevenly distributed. And the biggest problem, when...

Food aid outsourced to Amazon

The truth is, there’s more than enough food in the world, it’s just unevenly distributed. And the biggest problem, when...

Bitcoin Treasuries Part 2: When Treasury becomes Strategy

The strategies of companies placing bigger bets, exploring whether their bold moves offer a blueprint for others or a cautionary...

Going green with gusto

Every restaurant and deli owner knows it’s a constant headache ensuring there’s a daily fresh supply of tasty and healthy...

Saying goodbye to silicon

For decades we’ve used silicon semiconductors to build processors and microchips for data, signal, and information processing. Graphics too. With...

Tell me sweet little lies

We have been lied to, and we are still being lied to. On a grand scale. By government agencies, banks,...

Bitcoin Treasuries: Hype, Hope, or a House of Cards?

An increasing number of companies are taking a bold step: allocating part of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin.

Getting the needles

We’re off camping in one of the most remote state forests in the country, complete with two dogs, a family...

No mystery, no margin

There’s an old adage in business: “Where there’s mystery, there’s margin!” In other words, if you know something your competitors...

Food aid outsourced to Amazon

The truth is, there’s more than enough food in the world, it’s just unevenly distributed. And the biggest problem, when...

Bitcoin Treasuries Part 2: When Treasury becomes Strategy

The strategies of companies placing bigger bets, exploring whether their bold moves offer a blueprint for others or a cautionary...

Going green with gusto

Every restaurant and deli owner knows it’s a constant headache ensuring there’s a daily fresh supply of tasty and healthy...

Saying goodbye to silicon

For decades we’ve used silicon semiconductors to build processors and microchips for data, signal, and information processing. Graphics too. With...

Tell me sweet little lies

We have been lied to, and we are still being lied to. On a grand scale. By government agencies, banks,...

Bitcoin Treasuries: Hype, Hope, or a House of Cards?

An increasing number of companies are taking a bold step: allocating part of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin.

Getting the needles

We’re off camping in one of the most remote state forests in the country, complete with two dogs, a family...

No mystery, no margin

There’s an old adage in business: “Where there’s mystery, there’s margin!” In other words, if you know something your competitors...

Global cybercrime scandal

Money has always been a game. Once tied to gold and silver, then to banknotes, and now to digital entries...

Solar without the smoke

For thousands of years, humans have harnessed renewable solar energy trapped in the most accessible fuel of all, by burning...

Transports of delight

I love my car. Actually, it’s not a car, it’s an automobile. An autonomous mobility device. A robot chauffeur that...

AI in the sky

What started out as a prestige project to be the first computer network in orbit has become a force to...

Mutually assured construction

It seems like a fairytale, but the last four years of chaotic economic conflict are finally settling down, and everyone’s...

India feeds them all

India, the country with the largest population, has managed to maintain food security, thanks to seven varieties of bioengineered rice...

AI won’t let you die

Twenty years ago, in 2025, Professor Derya Unutmaz stunned his audience when he predicted that we would solve the problem...

Robot population explosion

One of the fastest growing technologies in human history is the extraordinary boom in humanoid robots. In 2025 Tesla managed...

Overtaking in the rain – how to adapt and win in the perfect storm

In Formula 1, legends are not made in perfect conditions. As Ayrton Senna once said, “You cannot overtake cars in...

The Money Game

If you have enough to live comfortably, then money is just a game. A game with real life consequences. Money...

Getting down to Earth

Humanity has always relied on the Earth to provide plants for food, clothing and shelter, animals for work and meat,...

Fighting for the future

Science and technology have been propelled into the front lines of the global contest. It’s not a military war, but...

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