The words we choose do more than describe reality. They shape what we are able to see. Some language brings problems into focus while other…
The discussion about Sovereign AI is suddenly everywhere. It appears in government strategies, policy speeches and vendor roadmaps, almost always framed as an urgent national…
This month I had the privilege of speaking at an event focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, organised by SEVENTEENx. The topic couldn’t have…
The internet’s story is one of amazing revolutions that no one recognises until it’s too late. Once, Telnet ruled, a text-only frontier where each server…
Do you remember when Web3 was everywhere? Facebook even renamed itself Meta to prepare for a future where the metaverse would replace the browser. The…
NVIDIA is doing something remarkable, selling silicon chips at prices unimaginable a decade ago. Artificial intelligence has decoupled demand from cost for a company built…
In the late seventeenth century, England’s King William III tried to fix his budget by taxing windows. It wasn’t completely illogical, wealthier citizens had bigger…
I have the privilege of working across Asia Pacific, which I would argue is the most exciting, dynamic and diverse set of economies in the…
Ask ChatGPT how to boil an egg or write a limerick, and it will usually do a fine job. Ask any large language model to…
Voyager 1 has ventured farther than any human-made machine, now over 25 billion kilometres from Earth, drifting through the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Since…