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A bright yellow sunflower center. Its central seeds look like a crowd of people converging towards the center.

THE FUTURE IS FOR EVERYONE. IS IT REALLY?

Vania La Rocca contrasts Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto with what is already happening far from Silicon Valley. In Uganda, a locally built AI tool based on an open Chinese model is serving farmers in their own languages more effectively and affordably than leading American systems.

FROM PAPER TO PIXELS: THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

FROM PAPER TO PIXELS: THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

The digital revolution was supposed to make the economy cleaner and lighter. Instead, many environmental costs were displaced rather than eliminated. From forests and paper mills to data centres, Ronise Nepomuceno examines the hidden physical footprint of the digital economy.