As discussed in ‘A Contribution to Creativity’ in this series, technology platforms have opened up new mechanisms to reflect, embody and proliferate the core values of different communities. Core values such as family values, environmental justice, or the desire for specific foods are implicit compasses that guide human actions. While mainstream social media platforms are deliberately filtering core values in weighted proportions, this article proposes a blockchain-based token economy to safe...

Free online content has been the norm for 30 years, yet efforts to monetise content persist. Anyone who has conducted an online search would have come across the ‘404 Not Found’ page, but very few know about the ‘402 Payment Required’ page. Numbers such as 401, 402, 403 and 404 are HTTP status codes assigned for various errors, part of the basic design of the World Wide Web. They have existed since the early days of the internet. Back then, the consensus was that some web pages would require ...

Technology is constantly evolving, and new buzzwords emerge every now and then, followed by people claiming to use them in various ways. Recently, ChatGPT has sparked a global AI trend, leading to the development of new projects that use AI for various purposes, including writing copy, drawing, financial reporting, data analysis, and scheduling. AI has become a "universal key" that can be used in any job, and people are eager to implement it. However, history often repeats itself, and soon so...

As social media platforms proficiently feed users with self-affirming posts and pleasant experiences, the adverse effect is that people get trapped in their mental comfort zones, losing touch with different communities and alternative viewpoints. Opinion leaders find themselves in endless pursuit of reach, public opinion becomes polarised, and people with opposite viewpoints lose the capacity and interest to converse. Remedies to this social engineering experiment can be found in fact checkin...