by Aseem Gupta | Mar 2, 2026 | Technology, AI & Complex Systems
Reading Time: 23 MinutesEurope has some of the world’s finest universities, highly skilled engineers, sophisticated industries, wealthy consumers, and governments capable of investing billions in research. Yet the technology companies shaping the modern global...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 1, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 28 MinutesIn Randomize, Andy Weir turns a problem in quantum computing into an elaborate Las Vegas casino heist. When a powerful new computer threatens the security of conventional gambling machines, a casino invests in technology designed to produce...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 15, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 47 MinutesWhat if everyone automatically accepted that you belonged wherever you went? What if a scientist discovered a way to prevent death, only to destroy civilization? What if every person who ever lived was actually the same soul, experiencing...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 10, 2026 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
Reading Time: 22 MinutesAcross South Asia, young people have taken to the streets to challenge governments, political establishments and institutions they believe have failed them. Some have protested against corruption and the wealth of politically connected...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 1, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 27 MinutesCaptain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets is the second book in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series, first published in 1999. Like the first book, it combines prose, cartoons, comics drawn by its own protagonists, superhero...
