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America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy
Why brilliant ideas aren’t enough
The country has the talent. It has ideas. It has institutions. What it needs is the connective tissue to turn potential into performance — and the patience to accept that…
‘Two Sessions’ reveals a China eyeing global dominance
The story of the coming years will not be the binary of whether China ‘collapses’ or ‘surpasses’. It will be about how the rest of the world adapts to a China that has…
Timnit Gebru and the fight to make artificial intelligence work for Africa
As you read this, the future is being coded in Silicon Valley. The algorithms that will one day govern our lives are being built. But who is building them, and who are they being…
The Portfolio: David Phume
Animator, roboticist and artist David Phume is on a mission to show that technology is not just for the geniuses in Silicon Valley
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Building your own business
We need to become perpetual students, and the range of training offerings just keeps increasing
Who wants to live forever?
Longevity enthusiasts believe immortality is a worthwhile goal. But refugees from the past could create problems for future generations
Walking among unicorns
Facts about San Francisco are hidden; they are gleaned from trying to make sense of being there
German court to rule on parents’ access to dead daughter’s Facebook
Germany is far from the first country to see moral and legal battles over how to deal with digital data whose owners have passed away
Makhura believes digital revolution could address Gauteng unemployment crisis
The premier promised to align education and training to meet the needs of the new digital economy
We have created a monster in the internet machine
What has made internet platforms so profitable has also left them vulnerable to manipulation by malign actors
Chinese Chengdu aspires to become next Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.
SA fails test of network society
From Silicon Valley to Yokohama, Manuel Castells tracked the ways states can accelerate the technological modernisation of economies.
Steve Jobs: A genius to the end
Many believed the technical and business wizard would not, indeed could not, die, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.