A Chinese journalist tried to boycott American digital services for a single day — and discovered she was unable to function. The story is small. The structure it reveals is not.
My old professor used to say: “I hope we live long enough to see real AI.” We are living through that day now. The question is what happens after.
A working hypothesis: the secret to a poem’s reach in the Arabic world isn’t only what it says, but the meter it says it in.
The old colonialism arrived on ships. The new one arrives as a push notification — quieter, more convenient, and far more difficult to refuse.
People often ask what made humans different from animals.Was it intelligence? Tools? Consciousness? Emotions? I believe the answer is simpler — and…