Elon Musk’s low-orbit satellite internet service Starlink might get its chance to officially set up shop in South Africa as…
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The United States’ most senior public health official, surgeon-general Vivek Murthy, believes social media platforms should come with warning labels. The…
Human foibles and a moving target The reason to regulate AI is not because the technology is out of control,…
Last week, artificial intelligence pioneers and experts urged major AI labs to immediately pause the training of AI systems more…
When new innovations emerge, there’s always a temptation to say that we need to rewrite the rulebook for them. Gamification…
In recent weeks, we’ve seen more talk about crypto in South Africa than ever before. There were Doges involved, an…
One of the most powerful tools of the information age (no, not Mark Zuckerberg — he’s merely a powerful tool)…
With the rise of internet juggernauts Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, this insight seems obvious now. But over the past two decades, a fundamentally new business model emerged which even Castells had not foreseen – one in which attracting users onto digital platforms takes precedence over everything else, including what the user might say, do, or buy on that platform.