The tragedy of African science lies in the insistence on double standards colored as “innovative” solutions for low and middle-income countries. This defeatist narrative has been propagated by the insistence that Africa is a dark continent fraught of requisite infrastructure and know-how to design, conduct,
Never before has biosafety been as critical as today. Simply because of the level of sophistication of the technology we have on hand today. From gene editing to artificial intelligence, the risk of escape of life forms, both biological and artificial — such as robotics
Elon Musk, founder, CEO & CTO of SpaceX, co-founder & CEO of Tesla Motor was the more illustrious of tech leaders who penned an open letter to the UN’s Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons over AI use in warfare. Picking up on
Will early retirement be the norm this century? With every passing AI headline, even the futurists among us are increasingly shaken. Rattled. Unsettled by news on the latest advancements in AI technology. In what reads like the Book of Revelation, we’ve been forewarned of an
Did we just witness a revolution? Or was that another fatal misstep by science? Has science lost it’s soul and become corrupt by muddling in the dirty world of politics? Why did scientists opt for a political tool (protests) in the March for Science? By
