Cats or dogs? No matter who you are, you're most likely a lover of one or the another.
Let's say there's a new pet shop in town that you'd like to visit. It's big and houses a lot of adorable pets to choose from. As a cat lover, for example, you would like to see how their collection can add to your satisfaction.
Visiting the shop, you're greeted by the kind owner himself.
We have experienced authoritarianism in history, and it's nothing new. But if the authority is not human, that is something else.
In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we could create "an immortal dictator from which we would never escape," said billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk in the documentary Do You Trust This Computer?, directed by filmmaker Chris Paine.
Here he explored the promises and perils of AI, a subject which Musk has been very vocal.
When the World Wide Web turns 29 in 2018, it marked a milestone in the web's history. For the first time, we are entering an era where more than half of the world's population comes online.
Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the web. He envisions how to get the other half of the world connected, and to make sure that they do want to get connected.
Apple is more a hardware company than it is a software company. But this doesn't stop Tim Cook from sharing his thoughts about social media networks and how they affect politics.
Here, he shows his concern about the world that is having social media issues.
When reports said that Russia was targeting U.S. voters with disinformation in the 2016 presidential election, Cook talked about how easy it is to abuse social media platforms.
Bitcoin has come a long way since its first inception. Since then, the cryptocurrency and the underlying technology have become a widely-discussed topic in tech, finance and even politics.
With cryptocurrency having the potential to genuinely change how we use money, there are many people who are still "underestimating" it.
With the internet, new technologies have been invented with a lot more to come. One of the greatest advancements, is cryptocurrency.
Using blockchain technology, which was first conceptualized by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, it's a digital asset to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets.
The social giant Facebook has been criticized by many, and attacked by one of its founding members for "exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology" and putting children's mental health at risk.
When fire was first discovered, it was regarded as one of the greatest invention on the Early Stone Age.
With the ability to control fire, humans experienced a turning point in cultural aspect of our overall evolution. Fire provided the source of warmth, protection, as well as improving new ways to gather and prepare food. What's more, fire enabled us to expand our activity into the dark, making us rely less on the sun.
The social giant Facebook is probably at the center of the digital lives many people are having on the web. With its massive influence, it does invite a lot of criticisms, including from its former employees.
Chamath Palihapitiya, was the vice president for user growth at Facebook before he left the company in 2011. He said that: "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth."
The social giant Facebook is one of the largest being at the center of the digital lives many people are having on the web. With its massive influence, it does invite a lot of criticisms, including from its former employees.
Chamath Palihapitiya was the vice president for user growth at Facebook before he left the company in 2011. He said that: "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth."