Images and distorted facts

The big tech firms are banking on Generative AI – algorithms that synthesize web content to “create” text, pictures and sounds – as the next big thing, but it could also create major problems.

Holding onto hope

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a “hopeful moment” – to use a phrase coined by Hirokazu Myazaki – to create opportunities for envisioning alternative futures, ones that are more inclusive and caring, less environmentally destructive, and oriented to fulfilling basic human needs.

A matter of trust

The public panic surrounding COVID-19 around the world, manifested in the hoarding of food, toilet paper and other basic necessities – is driven by a general decline of confidence and trust in authorities and credentialled experts.