In the dawning age of synthetic cognition, intelligence itself has become a planetary force—drawing water from deserts, heat from grids, and data from the recesses of the human mind. What began as silicon computation has expanded into a living infrastructure of thought and matter: AI data centers that drain aquifers to cool their neural cores; brain–computer interfaces that monetize attention as the newest form of currency; planetary “smart dust” networks that inhale the atmo

The AI Legal Battleground & The Great Recalibration: Building the Constitution of the Digital Age | ZEN Weekly #168

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It’s time to update our definition of "breakthrough." Things that once felt like science fiction are now weekly news. Theories that lived...

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In the span of a single week, laboratories delivered breakthroughs that capture zero-point vibrational dynamics, stabilized quantum...