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If Day One explored what neurotechnology means for individual minds, Day Two confronted what it will mean for societies, states and the systems that govern them. The conversations shifted from personal rights, clinical ethics and emerging applications to national capability, infrastructure, defence, public policy and …
There was a moment on Day One of the 2025 Neurotechnology Summit, superbly crafted by Andra Müller of Jewelrock and Dr. Allan McCay , when I looked around the room and realised something quietly extraordinary. This was not a gathering of technologists on one side …
The Suffocating Embrace of Accumulated Law The Government (I speak of the US Government in this article, although the principle argument is as good as a blueprint for many other governments globally) has developed a peculiar affliction over the past half-century: the inability to throw …
How to Avoid Becoming That Person This Silly Season** There’s a particular species that emerges every December. No, not the office-party peacock or the strategic mistletoe strategist. I’m talking about the iologue. And no, that’s not a typo. An iologue is someone who doesn’t have …
I just graduated from Isik University with a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering, and like many recent graduates, I am working on finding my place in the tech world. It feels exciting because it opens new possibilities, but it is also stressful at times …
From Data to Thought For decades, cybersecurity has been concerned with protecting what we know — our data, our systems, our networks. Neurotechnology, by contrast, is beginning to probe something even more intimate: what we think. As the boundaries between biological systems and digital networks …
I scroll past another TikTok about how AI is “ruining everything!” The comments are predictably catastrophic: artists losing jobs, humanity’s demise, the usual. I keep scrolling. Five videos later, an AI-generated meme makes me laugh. Of course, the comments are pure outrage: “Stop normalising AI!” …
