Category AI and Technology

Articles about artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, and technology policy

Hello, Computer: The Star Trek Era Has Begun

AI generated collage: from a 1980s boy at a silent home computer to a man talking with AI, centaur chess, a card catalog library, and an AI communicator at sunrise

At seven years old I watched a Star Trek engineer talk to a computer — and concluded it would never happen in my lifetime. From the Sinclair QL to Audrey, Shoebox, Dragon, Siri and ChatGPT, the abyss between human and machine was crossed within one lifetime: mine. This personal essay explores the stochastic-parrot debate, Microsoft's research on outsourced thinking, and the freestyle chess lesson — human plus computer beats both — ending with a rule for living well in the first age of talking machines. #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfAI #StarTrek #ChatGPT #SpeechRecognition #CriticalThinking #StochasticParrot #AIRevolution

The Compute Frontier: What China’s Quantum and Classical Breakthroughs Mean for Europe

AI generated collage showing semiconductor fab, quantum processor, China and EU maps connected by data streams

China has begun mass-producing its own DUV lithography machines, built a 12,000-kilometer quantum communication network, and achieved 25 percent global RISC-V market share — all while three to five years behind at the leading edge. Meanwhile, Europe watches its most valuable tech company lose its largest market to export controls it helped impose. The compute frontier is not a race with a finish line. It is a landscape being reshaped. Europe must decide: copy China's whole-chain approach, or deepen the chokepoints that make the world need European technology. #Semiconductors #QuantumComputing #ChinaTech #EuroTech #Lithography #AIChips #TechSovereignty #ComputeFrontier