Author: Barack
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It began with cameras in public squares and license-plate readers at city checkpoints. Then it moved to real-time video analytics and biometric databases. Today, it’s embedded in smartphone regulation, digital identity systems, and AI surveillance infrastructure that can monitor behavior on an unprecedented scale. Governments around the world are expanding digital surveillance technologies — not…
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The Bargain Was Subtle — And That’s Why It Worked At first, the exchange felt harmless. A free app in return for a few permissions.A smarter device in exchange for basic data.A personalised experience for a little transparency. Nothing dramatic. Nothing alarming. Yet, over time, convenience became frictionless—and privacy quietly became negotiable. Not through a…
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This Is No Longer a Question of Influence — It’s a Question of Transformation At one point, technology simply supported human behaviour. Then, it began to shape it. Now, unmistakably, it is restructuring the way humans think, decide, remember, relate, and react. This isn’t speculation. It’s observable—everywhere. From how we process information to how we…
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The Digital Divide Is No Longer About Access — It’s About Capability For years, conversations about technology focused on access: devices, internet connectivity, and infrastructure. That era is quietly closing. Today, the real divide lies elsewhere—in the ability to use digital tools confidently, critically, and creatively. At this point, digital skills are no longer a…
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The Remote Work Experiment Is Over — The Evolution Has Begun For a moment, it seemed like remote work had “arrived.” Zoom calls replaced conference rooms. Slack replaced hallway conversations. Cloud tools replaced office servers. And just like that, work went virtual. However, beneath the surface, something far more important was happening. Remote work technology…
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Not by changing what people think overnight — but by quietly changing how they arrive at their beliefs. Public opinion has always been influenced by technology. Print amplified ideas. Radio gave them a voice. Television gave them reach. Yet social media does something fundamentally different. Rather than broadcasting opinions outward, it pulls people inward —…
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The industry that promised flexibility, impact, and freedom is quietly exhausting the people who keep it running. It doesn’t usually start dramatically. There’s no sudden collapse, no single breaking point. Instead, it arrives gradually — missed enthusiasm, constant tiredness, the sense that even small tasks require too much energy. In tech, burnout has become so…
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Innovation didn’t suddenly get faster. It got more collective. Innovation rarely announces where it comes from. By the time a product reaches scale or a breakthrough hits the mainstream, the groundwork has usually been laid somewhere quieter — in shared conversations, late-night threads, collaborative experiments, and communities built around curiosity rather than profit. That’s where…
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We asked technology to help us understand the world. Instead, it’s forcing us to question how much control we’re willing to give up. Data Knows Us Better Than We Know Ourselves Every click, swipe, search, and pause tells a story. Not just about what we do — but about who we are. Big data was…
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In an industry that reinvents itself every few years, relevance has become a moving target — and even the best are struggling to keep up. Relevance Is No Longer a Given In tech, relevance used to mean mastering a skill, building experience, and climbing steadily upward. Today, that formula no longer works. Frameworks fade. Platforms…