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The Do-It-Yourself Tech Dream Called Bitcoin Could Take Off The Rails At 4:26 AM, an App Crashes Ravi, a shopkeeper in busy Mumbai, sat despondently on his laptop screen. It was May 18, 2025, and his store’s sales app, a crude version built just hours earlier from a no-code platform, was imploding before his eyes. What began as […]

The Nightmare That Will Haunt You Again And Again On a cold May morning in 2025, Sydney barista Emma sat in her poky apartment staring at her phone, one eye on the screen, the other on the 12th (yes, 12th) subscription she had canceled this year. It wasn’t the first time she’d done the math, but it still

The Green Promise That Became A Casualty Of The Culture Wars At 4:14 AM in Bangalore The air was heavy in the industrial area of Bangalore where Priya worked, as she looked over her company’s glossy new pledge “Net Zero by 2025.” The irony didn’t escape her. She clocked in to coal-driven machinery that belched rhythmic smoke

It’s 4:08 a.m., May 18, 2025, and Wei, an accountant in Singapore, takes a sip of freshly brewed but already lukewarm coffee and stares at his laptop screen, which glows softly from the dim overhead light. His blended work schedule allows him to telecommute, saving him the grueling trip through his city’s notorious after-work rush the night

Introduction Hook It’s early May, in 2025, on a Thursday evening, and Lisa, a Minneapolis mom that the days have turned into a blur for since the pandemic upended everything, sits down between her bills and putting another kid to bed to waste some time scrolling on TikTok. Minutes later an influencer pitches a $300 set

The Digital Vault That Keeps Your Money Safe (Until It Doesn’t) Introduction Picture this. It’s May 2025. Dana, a florist in Seattle, pulls up her bank’s cloud app to approve a loan to expand her thriving business. But instead of the nice dashboard, there is a cold error message staring her in the face. A cyberattack has locked her

The Great Digital Gold Rush or a House of Cards? Introduction It’s May 2025, and Jake, a Denver software engineer, is in the groove. With his own blazing-fast blockchain app and GPU rigs that hum like loaded-down workhorses in his basement, he mines Bitcoin valued at $1,000. In a matter of weeks, his wallet swells to $10,000. The easy

Introduction The new AI frontier AI summer 33Powered by progress in AI, society keeps moving into unchartered territories. 3.1 Agentic AI and Apps as emergent technologies Two of the emergent technologies, agentic AI and autonomous applications, are particularly interesting. They have the potential to do far more than automate tasks — they could end up transforming society and

Refinancing Dreams and Fine Print Nightmares It’s a warm May afternoon in Dallas, 2025. Margaret Jenkins, a single mom juggling two jobs, sits at her kitchen table with a fresh cup of coffee and her mortgage papers. She’s thrilled about locking in a rate of 5.8% on her newly refinanced home loan, her tidy ranch-style

Picture a Kansas City retiree with grey hair and round glasses, friends call him Bill. Clipping coupons and returning deposits with obsessive zeal helped Bill amass an impressive nest egg through traditional investing and day-to-day fiscal discipline. But he is unwittingly roped in by the seductive wizardry of Silicon Valley, where, armed with an AI robo-advisor, Bill marvels