Government in the Metaverse

Dubai is on the edge of becoming the first city in the world to be in the metaverse.

Issue 4: AI's Middle Ground

In a dramatic move last week, American lawmakers made their first major effort to regulate AI.

Issue 3: A Matter of Culture

Do we fully understand the power of digital technology to transform artistic production in the age of augmented realities and intelligences?

Issue 2: Welcome to the Startup Oasis

Put simply: expect more innovation, applications, and platforms to come from Dubai’s startup oasis.

Issue 1: Common AI Ethics?

Smaller markets, like the UAE, can infuse the debate with fresh perspectives that might be left out of western-centric discussions.

Seeing the Forest Through the Trees of 5G

Instead of focusing on the latest telecom advert promising faster speeds, we need to focus the discussion on 5G around the politics of data.

Driverless cars pollute less than standard models, but they still tax our infrastructure and our health. Bikes can offer a better solution.

Professor Shoshana Zuboff sounds the alarm on “surveillance capitalism,” where data is packaged and commercialized, often outside the public eye.

4IR's Missing Ingredient is Trust

One thing has become glaringly clear around the world over the last year: Trust is in short supply.