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Shutting the gate on reality: how AI will build the world around you

Shutting the gate on reality: how AI will build the world around you

The web is becoming an invisible, personalised layer around us - and that may quietly seal us inside our own reality.

May 10, 2026

If the past is just a dataset, it can be re-weighted

If the past is just a dataset, it can be re-weighted

How AI's ability to re-weight our collective history and private memory may create a radical, terrifying, and beautiful possibility: the end of fixed history.

November 24, 2025

Uncertain Intelligence: A Beginning or an End?

Uncertain Intelligence: A Beginning or an End?

A reflection on Al's evolution - from Turing's vision to today's generative systems — exploring how learning machines mirror, challenge, and redefine humanity.

November 16, 2025

The Age of 'Hacking Humans': Harari on AI and the End of Free Will

The Age of 'Hacking Humans': Harari on AI and the End of Free Will

Throughout history, leaders have sought new ways to exert influence and control. In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores how AI could shift surveillance from passive monitoring to predictive behavioural control, potentially enabling digital dictatorships unless strong democratic safeguards are put in place now.

November 16, 2025

Review: The Experience Machine

Review: The Experience Machine

Clark’s book explores how the brain actively constructs reality through prediction, revealing perception as a dynamic, generative process rather than passive sensing.

November 10, 2025

Building a Weather Platform

Building a Weather Platform

Building a live, data-driven system that pulls together real-time local readings, Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) radar maps, and coastal tide data.

November 9, 2025

Insulin resistance, Nitric Oxide, and high blood pressure

Insulin resistance, Nitric Oxide, and high blood pressure

Insulin resistance has long been seen as a problem for diabetics, but emerging research shows it affects far more people — often undetected — and can drive serious cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic decline.

November 2, 2025

The Singularity is Nearer

The Singularity is Nearer

Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Nearer updates his optimistic case for exponential AI, biotech and computing advances, arguing emerging breakthroughs confirm his timelines and foreshadow deep human–machine integration.

November 1, 2025