Category: Education
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Has a Gut Problem
We like to talk about “industrial revolutions” as if they’re clean breaks with the past: steam, electricity, computing, AI. In reality, each wave carried the same pattern forward: innovation without people at the centre, value and wealth accumulating with a small group, and everyone else left to adapt to the consequences. You can see this Read more
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Cold War Dressed in Silicon
On pluralism, tech oligarchs, and the shape of AI sovereignty Pluralism entered my life long before artificial intelligence did. Even before I joined the Aga Khan Foundation Canada Global Leadership Program, I had already been wrestling with the idea that societies survive not by sameness, but by holding together many identities, many truths, and many Read more
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Fashionable AI and the Future of Work
There was a time when clothes were made slowly. They were hand-stitched, hand-dyed, and deeply personal. In India, crafts like Kalamkari used hand-drawn patterns and natural dyes to create fabrics that weren’t just beautiful — they told stories. Across the world, in small workshops and home studios, garments came to life with a sense of Read more