Turmoil at OpenAI Shows We Must Address Whether AI Developers Can Regulate Themselves
By Yali Du
OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT and a leading innovator in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), was recently thrown into turmoil when its...
Elon Musk ― An Inspirational Icon for Generation X Globally
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D
This article outlines leadership lessons from Elon Musk. It differentiates between hard and soft leadership. It illustrates with examples of...
Can the UK hit its broadband target?
In an age and society where web access could scarcely be more essential, the need to give everyone adequate broadband coverage only grows stronger.
The...
Robot Rights and the Emergence of the “Electronic Person”
By Kyle Bowyer
Current laws may soon be inadequate for regulating increasingly sophisticated and intelligent robots. As machines approach and even surpass human physical and...
3 Reasons for Information Exhaustion – and What to Do About It
By Mark Satta
An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook with a...
The Self-Driving Trolley Problem: How will Future AI Systems make the most Ethical Choices...
By Jumana Abu-Khalaf and Paul Haskell-Dowland
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making decisions in the fields of business, health care and manufacturing. But AI algorithms...
COVID vaccines: combining AstraZeneca and Pfizer may boost immunity – new study
By Professor Tracy Hussell
Late last year, I asked: is it safe to have more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? A trial has now addressed that question,...
Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated
By Dr Iwa Salami
As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, Bitcoin has seen a steady rise in its price. The...
Why People Trust Sharing Economy Strangers More Than Their Colleagues
By Mareike Möhlmann
Trust is a crucial element in any relationship, not least when financial transactions are taking place. The rise of sharing economy platforms...
For Minorities, Biased AI Algorithms Can Damage Almost Every Part of Life
By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and...
Good governance is the missing prescription for better digital health care
By Linying Dong
Recently Ontario released its Digital First for Health strategy — aiming to further digitize health care and end the problem of overcrowded hospitals and “hallway...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
The Fairness Challenge of the Internet of Things
By Bang Ngyuen and David De Cremer
The Internet-of-Things essentially enables mass data collection and analysis, to the benefit not just of businesses, but individuals...
How Nigeria Can Turn Its Huge Cashew Waste Into Valuable Citric Acid
By Agbaje Lateef and Adekunle O. Adeoye (PhD)
Nigeria – the sixth largest producer of cashew nuts globally – exports more than 80% of its raw cashews...
Chips Everywhere and with Everything
By Elizabeth Stephens
Until recently, Taiwan’s central position in the global supply chain of advanced semiconductors was not seen as an issue. But today, in...
Electric Vehicles are now Trending. But Where Can We Charge Them?
By Sunil Johal
Canada is on the road to transformation in mobility. The federal government recently announced its zero-emission vehicle sales target, which requires all light-duty...
Metaverse: Five Things to Know – and What It Could Mean for You
By Steve Benford
In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse”, Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch into this space.
Meta...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
How to Enjoy a Digital Detox Over Christmas
By Brad McKenna and Wenjie Cai
It is not surprising that many of us have been suffering from digital overload during the pandemic, and taking care of...
How AI is Hijacking Art History
By Sonja Drimmer
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret.
Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news...
Right to be Disconnected – The Wave to Catch On
By Jasna Čošabić
This paper analyses the possible influence of the French labour law reform – the “right to be disconnected” – on other countries and the benefits...
When to Give Your Child Their First Mobile Phone – And How to Keep...
By Andy Phippen
I spend my career researching young people and the internet: what they do online, what they think about it and how their...
Generation Z: when it comes to behaviour, not all digital natives look alike
By Elodie Gentina and Emma Parry
Gradually over the past few years, the once-ubiquitous discussions about millennials are being replaced by an interest in the...
Elon Musk’s ‘Hardcore’ Management Style: A Case Study in What Not to Do
By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander
As a case study in how to implement organisational change, Elon Musk’s actions at Twitter will go down as the gold...
Can You Truly Own Anything in the Metaverse? A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains...
By João Marinotti
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
NFT: Beyond the Hype, There is the Future
By Terence Tse, Andrea Maria Cosentino and Mark Esposito
Non-fungible tokens – much has been said and written about them, but what is the truth?...
Cosmopolitan Conceptions? Biopolitics and Emiratisation in Dubai’s IVF “Reprohub”
By Marcia C. Inhorn
Despite the political tumult in the Arab world, Dubai continues to draw medical tourists from around the globe, including infertile “reprotravellers”...
Inviting Post-graduate Students and Young Professionals to Join the Merck Innovation Cup Summer Camp...
From June 20 - 26, 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will be hosting the 10th Anniversary Innovation Cup Summer Camp (http://innovationcup.merckgroup.com) near Frankfurt, Germany, and we are inviting...
Sleeping Longer than 6.5 Hours a Night Associated with Cognitive Decline According to Research...
By Greg Elder
A good night’s sleep is important for many reasons. It helps our body repair itself and function as it should, and is linked to...
AI Can Reinforce Discrimination — But Used Correctly It Could Make Hiring More Inclusive
By Elisabeth Kelan
Hiring is normally featured as a prime example for algorithmic bias. This is where a tendency to favour some groups over others...
Ukraine War: Australian-Made Cardboard Drones Used to Attack Russian Airfield Show How Innovation Is...
By Paul Cureton
Innovative design choices can have a massive impact in the theatre of war, so it is important to understand the principles behind...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
Found in Translation: Multilingual conferences don’t need to face barriers to communication
If you’ve ever been in the audience for a conference or symposium, it’s likely you introduced yourself to fellow attendees at a break in...
Esports: How the Struggling Hospitality Industry could Capitalise on this Massive Business
By Jamie Thompson and Babak Taheri
During the pandemic, the sporting world ground to a halt. Global events such as the Olympics, Formula 1 racing,...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
Wikipedia as Illustration of the Truth-Seeking Rationale for Freedom of Expression
By Mark Cenite
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
How the Tech Giants are Innovating to Weather the Looming Downturn
By Howard Yu
Rising inflation and looming recessions are squeezing household finances, but businesses also worry about an economic downturn. This is not just because...
Adapting In An Ever-Changing Business World: When Culture Meets Biology To Survive
By David De Cremer
The world today is changing all the time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were reminded that events and...
Ethiopia’s blockchain deal is a watershed moment – for the technology, and for Africa
By Iwa Salami
At the launch of bitcoin in 2009 the size of the potential of the underlying technology, the blockchain, was not fully appreciated.
What has not...
Privacy After COVID
By James A. Lewis
The COVID pandemic highlighted privacy. Lockdowns and restrictions on in-person meetings made digital networks an essential tool. This reliance on digital...
Transforming to Hybrid Work: The Importance of Cloud-Based Solutions
By David De Cremer
With the arrival of the pandemic, a new way of working also arrived: working remotely. Companies were forced to keep their...
Is Crypto Trading Like Forex Trading?
Both fiat money and digital tokens are called currency, but comparing forex trading to crypto trading is like comparing apples with freight trains. In...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in...
The Power of Big Tech Platforms Has Gone Too Far
By Andreas Kornelakis
The shift in the regulatory context globally compels tech giants to become more responsible
There is a global shift in policies to curb...
Tourism and the Metaverse: Towards a Widespread Use of Virtual Travel?
By Naïma Aïdi
The metaverse can be defined as a set of virtual shared spaces that are indexed in the real world and accessible via 3D interaction....
Navigating a New Digital Era Means Changing the World Economic Order
By Shamel Azmeh
COVID-19 has accelerated the growth in the digital economy through a dramatic increase in working from home, online shopping, digital entertainment, online...
How Technology Is Rupturing the Minds of Our Younger Generation
By Samantha Kaylee
The Millennials and those belonging from Generation Z have experienced a lifetime on this planet where digital technology was made available to...
Feed the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, Khaled Soufani and Lisa Xiong
One big misconception is that produce grown from nontraditional methods is of lesser quality, and...
On the Symphony of AI and Humans in the Work Context
By David De Cremer
“AI and human employees will form the teams of the future and will have to be led in such ways that...
Know Your History! Why Historical Awareness Makes You a Better Leader
By David De Cremer
The truism that you learn from the past can be applied in almost all aspects of life, even in business so...
Google Turns 25: The Search Engine Revolutionised How We Access Information, but Will It...
By Mark Sanderson, Julian Thomas, Kieran Hegarty, and Lisa M. Given
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday....
NFTs Are Much Bigger Than an Art Fad – Here’s How They Could Change...
By James Bowden and Dr. Edward Thomas Jones
Sotheby’s has become the latest establishment name in art to dive into NFTs (non-fungible tokens) through its...
Our Digital Culture Threatened by Loss
By Oliver Grau
Media art is the art form that uses the technologies that fundamentally change our societies, and plays an important role in the...
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
Five Ways the Internet Era has Changed British English – New Research
By Vaclav Brezina
The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like...
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito
Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....
Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail
By Adrian Furnham
In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it really...
Technology to Fracture Global Trade and Relations
By Graham Vanbergen
The article "Data Overtakes Oil as Leading (Geopolitical) Global Commodity" published three years ago became the subject of much debate and deliberation....
The Metaverse: Three Legal Issues We Need to Address
By Pin Lean Lau
The “metaverse” seems to be the latest buzzword in tech. In general terms, the metaverse can be viewed as a form...
Abstract Submissions Are Now Accepted for Presentation at Curious2020 – Future Insight Conference
Curious2020 – Future Insight Conference – science for a better tomorrow. Abstracts are now accepted for presentation at one of the world’s most renowned...
The Strategic Role of Marketing-Related Technology in Politics and What Business can Learn from...
By Bruce Newman
All organizations today need to use a wide array of databases available to learn everything they can about their target audience in...
Jeff Bezos is Looking to Defy Death – This is What We Know About...
By Daniel M. Davis
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the...
Decentralised Finance and UNSDGs – How should regulators respond?
By Dr Iwa Salami
This article looks at what Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is and its potential to facilitate the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development...
Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions
By Lucy van Dorp
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in...
The Rise of Dark Web Design: How Sites Manipulate You into Clicking
By Daniel Fitton
The vast majority of websites you visit now greet you with a pop-up. This annoying impediment to your seamless web browsing is...
ChatGPT Took People by Surprise – Here are Four Technologies that could Make a...
By Fabian Stephany and Johann Laux
In the evolving relationship between technology and society, humans have shown themselves to be incredibly adaptable. What once left...
Veins and Wires: Reflections on UrbanTech Transformation
By Dr Mike Cooray, Dr Rikke Duus and Marius Sylvestersen
What kind of urban environment would you like to live in? In this article, we...
Working in the Metaverse: What Virtual Office Life Could Look Like
By Sam Gilbert
In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many...
COVID-19: Changes in Online Dating Business
The world’s pandemic of COVID-19 has changed a lot in the lives of people in the last half a year. A lot of us...
Shhhh, They’re Listening – Inside the Coming Voice-Profiling Revolution
By Joseph Turow
You decide to call a store that sells some hiking boots you’re thinking of buying. As you dial in, the computer of...
Ethereum: what is it and why has the price gone parabolic?
By Paul J Ennis and Donncha Kavanagh
The price of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, ether, hit a new all-time high of US$1,440 (£1,050) on January 19....
2024: Predictions for the New World Disorder
By Graham Vanbergen
The Cold War peace dividend is disintegrating, geopolitical alliances are shifting, democracy is set to be challenged, AI is exponentially accelerating, and legacy...
Host-world.com Review (2021): Is this Service Good for Your Website?
The presence of your business online is quite important. It is hard to imagine a successful business without a good website. Building your business...
How COVID-19 Transformed Genomics and Changed the Handling of Disease Outbreaks Forever
By Angela Beckett and Samuel Robson
If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been...
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
HostZealot Review: Is This Hosting Solution Exactly What You Need?
Are you looking for the best VPS for your web project? Don’t hurry to buy the hosting service from the very first provider. Today,...
Manage the Human Side of Innovation: Tools to Help Your Team Succeed
By Stefano Mastrogiacomo
For companies to keep pace with the current upheavals, good teamwork and thus the relationships between team members are crucial for team success....
Duped, Guilty Pleasure, Irony, and Camp: Consuming Fake News
By Roscoe Scarborough
Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with self-proclaimed “bad TV” watchers about their media consumption, this research examines how people consume fake news....
In-Car Tech Revolution: Navigating the Latest Driving Innovations
The automotive industry is undergoing a significant transformation. The rapid evolution of in-car technologies drives it. This article delves into the exciting and dynamic...
Remote Teams: Managing Attitudes, Not Activity
By Drew Gurley
Managing remote teams is tricky. If attitude is the icing, function is the cake. In this article, Drew Gurley discusses why we...
COVID-19 Vaccines are Coming – How will we Know they Work and are Safe?
By Adam Kleczkowski
Pfizer and BioNTech have just released interim results of their COVID-19 vaccine trial. Although it is not the only vaccine in the late stages of...
The Metaverse Isn’t Here Yet, But it Already Has a Long History
By Professor Tom Boellstorff
Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually...
Increased Digitalisation of Services Trade in Today’s Global Economic Paralysis
By Sarita D. Jackson
During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an increased role of cross-border trade in services through digital technology. The digitalisation of...
As a Global Infrastructure Giant, Facebook must Uphold Human Rights
By Wendy H. Wong
Facebook — its new corporate name is Meta — has always wanted to get to know you. Its public goal has ostensibly been...
The New Technology That Is Making Cars Easier for Criminals to Steal, or Crash
By Rachael Medhurst
There is much talk in the automotive industry about the “internet of vehicles” (IoV). This describes a network of cars and other...
eColonialism Theory: How Trends are Changing the World
By Thomas L. McPhail
In this information age, new trends and ways of doing things have changed dramatically. From work, to school, to entertainment and...
Global R&D Effort For Creative Technology Must Be Stepped Up Post-Covid
By Andrew Thompson and Lord Neil Mendoza
The pandemic has highlighted creative industries’ innovative capacity and the extent to which we rely on culture not...
AI Might Eventually be an Extinction Threat, but it Poses More Pressing Risks
By Amin Al-Habaibeh
Since the AI chatbot ChatGPT was released in 2020, we’ve been hearing about the threat posed by artificial intelligence. A statement signed by academic experts and...
How Digital Innovation Is Changing Life Sciences and the Way We Treat Dementia
By Jessica Wong
Every year, dementia kills more Americans1 than prostate cancer and breast cancer combined. Advances in life sciences are moving researchers, patients, and...
We Need to Discuss What Jobs Robots Should Do, Before the Decision Is Made...
By Thusha Rajendran
The social separation imposed by the pandemic led us to rely on technology to an extent we might never have imagined –...
The Rise Of The Imagination Economy
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An
The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...
How the Leap into Web3 Will Impact the Internet Over the Next Decade
Web3 is an alternative version of the traditional internet structure based on blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is used in cryptocurrency, where consumers buy and...
Does Generative AI Generate Jobs?
By Jacques Bughin
The evolution of AI and its quick adoption by organisations has predisposed many workers to the fear of losing their jobs to...
The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading...
By Taylor Ogan and Xiangming Chen
While the world is focusing on if the Chinese government can be a trusted and reliable leader in dealing...