The future of human work
ChatGPT was just launched recently on November 30, 2022, and has gained a lot of popularity. In just five days, it got over one million users. This is compared to…
The future of humanity
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction. Scientists have created what has been described as the first living robots in the lab, and they did so by first trying…
Humanity’s future
Our variety of the human species, homo sapiens sapiens, emerged from out of bands of more primitive yet contemporaneous older variants of humanity well over 200,000 years ago and rapidly…
Auto plants of the future may have a surprisingly human touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles on the same line. The plants will…
Human rights and the future
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s annual report was released last week. Unsurprisingly, it is a compendium of the country’s failures over the past year. From freedom of thought and…
AI & human development
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is reshaping societies, economies, and governance. But as the UNDP 2025 Human Development Report, Whose Tech? Our Choices, reminds us, this transformation is deeply human. UN Secretary…
Faith, forgiveness and the future
May 6 is etched in my memory – not because it ended in tragedy, but because it nearly did. That afternoon in 2018, as I stepped out from a routine…
Studying humanities
TRADITIONALLY, developed societies have solved their problems and progressed through a partnership between universities and industry, through research and thought leadership emerging from universities, and through professional training provided at…
Unite for a greener future of Pakistan
The 3rd Pakistan Climate Conference, recently hosted by the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI), marked another critical milestone in the country’s journey toward climate resilience. Over the…
Liveable future
The window within which to sustain life on earth as we know it is ‘rapidly closing’. It does not get any more stark than that. Many who have long labored…
