Human-Invented Currency Of Creation — Some people believe in god, others believe in other gods. Yet others are putting their faith in science, some betting on the Standard Model, others on string theory, and yet others on economic theory — all hoping to explain and predict the whereabouts of matter and man. Curiously, as the…

Why Physics Will Fork: The Feminal Approach — In their book “The Dawn Of Everything”, David Graeber and David Wengrow track down the origin of scientific insight, their journey following a path that goes back thousands of years. So far, they note, the role of women had been “written out” of historical analyses. …

The Movie — Introduction To some, an awakening society of Artificial Intelligence algorithms running across billions of interconnected devices and smart phones may seem like a chance to resolve the problems that our world is facing by ‘magic’ means. To others, the idea of complacently handing over our reins and gains to something rather…

I Am Out Reaching A Broader Audience — Iam out! Over the last 3 years, I have published (on Medium.com) 30 odd original articles about the nature of our society and the impact that “AI” will have on us and all that we imagine to be real and true. At the crossroads of the natural and social sciences…

Homo Sapiens Squeezed Out Of Its Evolutionary Role — If you’d plot 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history as one hour on a clock face, you’d see bacteria emerge after the first eight minutes and humans in the last two seconds — you read it right, “two seconds”. At some point, triggered by favorable environmental conditions, molecules coalesced (self-organized)…

How AI Will Trace Society To Shape It In The End — We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever — Carl Sagan Many years ago, my wife and I visited Rhodes, a Greek island situated in the Mediterranean, close the coast of Turkey. As tourists sometimes do, we explored it on donkey back. I was…

Developments That Might Disrupt Our Lives — This time of year, one can expect to receive analyses that elaborate on the prospects in the year(s) to come. Balanced as they often are, they are typically written by established chums in the world of finance and business. So, apart from climate change, what are the serious threats to…

The Physics Of The Future — In the morning of July 24th, 2021, I was taken aback by the heartfelt expression of loss by some of the physicists that I follow on Twitter. The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg — pillar of modern physics, had died overnight. Weinberg had reached fame by helping to…

Machine Learning’s Copernican Consequences — The society of physicists sometimes reminds of a wild bunch of kids singing and dancing on the same tune, each kid trying to get in the limelight. Societies, even of physicists, rise to decline eventually, typically collapsing from the inside out when the foundations are folding. Not many inside see…