I often sit back and marvel at the rate of adoption of new technologies in Africa which, in many cases, exceeds that of developing world. Technology is embraced when it solves practical problems. The most notable example in Africa has been the exponential penetration of mobile telephony, and more recently smart phones. The lack of…Read more →
For the first segment in this series, I will touch on the social tipping point I believe we are currently on. I won’t address any specific advances I think will impact us in the future yet. I will save these for the segments to come and rather touch on the social impact or “Social Physics,”…Read more →
In this week’s piece on potentially transformative technology, I have selected a further extension of the quantum computing topic. The concept I will touch on was well described by Albert Einstein as “Spooky Action at a Distance”. This quantum property is called “Quantum Entanglement”. It is a bizarre property of quantum particles where they become…Read more →
