As we make the move from digital to cognitive, the tech industry should be thinking a lot harder about putting safety first.

Humanity’s fight against our ancient foe just entered its third, and most critical phase

If you can look past the hysteria, you’ll discover a new, global journalism ecosystem that’s more diverse, leaner, and healthier.

The act of eating meat has always meant the death of an animal. Not any more.

A scorecard for the last 12 months

Technology can go from the astonishing to the banal in a very short space of time

Privacy doesn’t need to be the price of progress

Optimism is a choice, not a reaction

If you’re feeling despair about the fate of humanity in the 21st century, you might want to reconsider.

...and what to do about them

The geeks are building a new, digital substrate for the global economy

How to hold on tightly… and let go lightly

Centuries ago we were writing on clay tablets. In this century we will write the stuff of life. 

Your opinions about global inequality really depend on where you’re standing

An overlapping confluence of three different technological waves — the smartphone, the electric vehicle and artificial intelligence — have created the conditions for a technological disruption so profound it’s going to change almost everything about the way we move in modern society.

It’s exciting, but not for the reasons most people think it is.

Forget fake news. The real problem is balance.

When our elected representatives express ideas that are free of any scientific consideration whatsoever, it’s not political to call them out on that. It’s common sense. 

The global low carbon economy is coming a lot faster than you think

Racism, xenophobia, bigotry and sexism have always been there, it’s just that we can see them more clearly now.