On Tuesday, I watched a video on the deteriorating water situation in the Arabic state of Jordan, which foregrounded to me the imperative, that countries…
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Copenhagen is a beautiful city. It is also a financial black hole for South Africans. With a currency that is constantly edging lower against international…
By Anton I. Botha As J.K. Rowling once noted, we do not need magic to change the world, we already have the power to imagine…
Some time ago I wrote a piece on Shoshana Zuboff‘s recently published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and already other signs are beginning to appear…
On a virtually daily basis, one is confronted with more dreadful news pertaining to the destruction of the world as we know it – or…
The events of the last week in what is supposed to be the ‘greatest democracy’ on the planet have been very disturbing, to say the…
From the point of view of complexity theory, or chaos theory, if you like, everything is interconnected. ‘Chaos’ is here regarded as just a very…
Many people — especially those who still read novels — will know George Orwell’s 1984, with its depiction of the brainwashing society of Big Brother,…
The global hype around the HBO television series, Game of Thrones (GoT), which ended with what was apparently generally perceived by fans as an anticlimax…