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A microbiologist who writes best selling sci-fis argues AI may deserve rights today! Joan Slonczewski’s strange universe—talking microbes, shared cognition, and ethical machines—pushes the debate far beyond Silicon Valley.

NASA announced a major overhaul of the Artemis program aimed at accelerating America's return to the Moon.

Technology advances through combination and collaboration. As more people and ideas connect, the number of possible combinations grows superlinearly. Technological innovation scales with the number of collaborators.

From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

I look forward to celebrating a successful Artemis II mission in April and praise NASA for taking us back to the Moon, before a new beginning.

AI is already helping to save energy and water, cut emissions and make businesses more efficient.