Web 3.0 is the latest evolution of the World Wide Web. There’s been much talk about the technologies that might underlie Web 3.0, but I’m more interested in the business models that might drive it. The problem is that the moniker “Web 3.0” is still fuzzy, holding different significance for…

Prophets of doom like Elon Musk and even the late Stephen Hawking believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the greatest existential threat to mankind. They envision the invention of a sufficiently advanced AI that is far more intelligent, faster and powerful than humanity, and which might end up enslaving us at…

In some cases. Hear me out. The Bollywood movie Pink (2016) puts three men and three women on trial: the men for rape and the women for assault when one of them repulses the advances of a minister’s nephew by braining him with a bottle. But the real goal of…

The expert is dead, killed by the unthinkable, the uneconomical, the unpolitical. Long live the populist! Victims of missed fortune who are poor in pocket but rich in conviction. A conspiracy of the ravening, hungering for acknowledgment. Consensus contradictors giving birth to a new discipline: infodemics, composed of stories —…

As a 21st century man-child, I love my work. I’d easily spend 10–12 hours a day at it if I could, it’s so engrossing. I’d even say it’s better than sex, and how many people can say that about their job? …