The algorithms are everywhere. From social media and eCommerce platforms, to news sites and everything in between, including voice assistants like Siri, Hey Google and Alexa. They are used to surface topics in our feeds, to guide us into making purchases and understanding how we move around the internet and…

Chances are, if you’re reading this post, you likely identify yourself as belonging to a particular culture; Indian, Nordic, Hispanic, Jewish, African, Western etc. And yes, you do. But culture is more dynamic than that, just as genders are. You may also view yourself as belonging to another culture like…

It’s no longer science fiction to think that sometime in the next two decades, we may come home to a nice clean house or apartment, dinner cooked, laundry fresh. We’ll wake up and have our breakfast prepared, tea or coffee piping hot and ready. A robot will do it all…

Perhaps the two hottest debates of the digital world in late 2021 and flowing into 2022 has been the metaverse and Web3. The flow of articles seems incessant, including this one. Both for and against. The division of opinions seems as virulent as politics these days. You’re either for or…

Chances are that when you hear or see the word anthropologist, you have a vision of some bedraggled man or woman hanging out in a remote village in some tropical part of the world. There are those anthropologists. Then there’s paleoanthropology, which studies fossil homonids. Then there’s cultural anthropologists like…

Uploading our brains to a computer and living a new life in a digital world is a very old trope of science fiction stretching back many decades. From soldiers dying in combat on alien worlds to victims of accidents and then the detectives can figure out how they were murdered…

You don’t have to do much digging to find very active supporters and proponents of the metaverse or the world of cryptocurrencies. We might tend to discount them as fanatics following a delusional dream filled with ideologies of decentralization and freedoms for humanity unlike ever before. A utopia is around…

The word “user” has some interesting roots. Until the mid 1930’s, it was mostly connected to narcotics and the use thereof. Even into the early 1980’s, a “user” was largely a derogatory term related to narcotics. It’s Latin roots are considered Vulgar Latin (as in not very well educated or…

As I’ve written before, humanity is undergoing a fundamental shift in how we evolve our species and live on this planet. And I’m far from the only writing on this topic. My focus, however, is on humans might adapt to living in this high-technology age. Especially as we must now…