Theoretical Physicist John Wheeler was the first to point out that the fundamental aspect of reality is not matter or energy but information. In his recent book, “Till the End of Time,” cosmologist Brian Greene hypothesises based on our current understanding of science about what the distant future of the…

“Arthur Miller is one of the world’s most insightful thinkers about the intersection of art and science.” — Walter Isaac “…the questions that Miller pursues in his book are some of the most exciting ones you can ask about artificial intelligence today.” — New Scientist We live in a world…

Type the word “teacher” on Google image search and you get hundreds of stock images of teachers standing at the front of a classroom with a chalkboard behind them and regimented rows of students sat before them. This traditional image of the teacher may seem like a caricature to those…

We live in interesting times. Universities in the U.K. and U.S. which were once bastions of free thought and free expression are now seeing a surge in calls from various student bodies to curb free speech. We even have MPs in parliament warning against the “fetishising” of debate. …

We are currently starting to see credentialing shift away from top-down central authority (e.g. universities) and are simultaneously witnessing a shift in the learning pathways students choose. …

We’ve seen more change in the last 100 years than in the previous 1000 years. The rate of change isn’t slowing down. Ray Kurzweil — described by Bill Gates as one of the best predictors of future technologies — says we will see 20,000 years’ worth of technological change in…

What the human species faces at this point is primarily a crisis of perception. Many of the global challenges we face arise out of a fundamentally problematic understanding of reality that is harming the biosphere and human life in alarming and perhaps irreversible ways. The living world is in peril…

The pandemic notwithstanding, we are currently in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution. The World Economic Forum describes this new era as characterized by “a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres — collectively referred to as cyber-physical systems.” A convergence…

The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of reality (including human society, the Earth and all the goings-on in the rest of the universe) is, in fact, an artificial simulation — that everything is part of an unimaginably complex computer programme created by an external agent. This, of course, calls to…