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Cities Are Learning to Rehearse Before They Build
Smart city technology is moving beyond dashboards and connected infrastructure toward something more consequential: cities that can simulate decisions, learn…
The Most Important New Technology in Human Development May Be the One That Learns How You Learn
Human development may be entering a new phase as intelligent systems begin to personalise how people learn, think, practise skills…
Mental Wellbeing Platforms Are Quietly Becoming Border Businesses
A rapidly diverging patchwork of state laws is quietly turning mental wellbeing platforms into jurisdiction-aware products, where the exact same…
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The Next Mental Wellbeing Platform May Not Be an App. It May Become a Companion to Everyday Life
Mental wellbeing platforms are evolving from libraries of content into continuous support systems that can recognise patterns, personalise interventions and…
The Second Job Nobody Was Hired to Do
Across almost every knowledge-work job, a new kind of labor has quietly appeared: watching, checking and correcting an AI system…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
Your Genome Was Never Meant to Be Compared With One Perfect Human
A human genome sequence dissolving into a vast, interconnected landscape of many different human genomes, suggesting that there is no…
A Piece of Another Solar System Just Passed Through Ours. What Can It Tell Us About Home?
An object formed around another star has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study a fragment of another planetary system…