Today’s complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking — one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. Learn how to navigate the intersections of art, technology, and science with these insightful perspectives.
Preserving the conditions for discovery in an age of autonomous science
Why confidence is not the same as truth
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Why explanation still matters in the age of AI.
Why the future of AI depends less on replacing experts than on understanding how organizations actually create knowledge.
Western thought repeatedly returns to the hope that contingency is an illusion.
AI may be the most powerful cognitive collaborator ever created.
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Some moments call for a business plan, while others call for adaptability. Here’s how to know when to lean on one or the other.
Why faster alignment may come at the expense of innovation.
Why optimizing scientific workflows may undermine the evolutionary process that makes discovery possible.
Why the future keeps surprising us.
How social media and AI reshape how we form—and trust—our beliefs.
Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI struggle when asked to predict scores over football season.
AI systems can now simulate with remarkable fidelity. They generate text, predict outcomes, and reproduce patterns across domains. In many cases, they are not just useful—they are operationally superior.
Leaders today are not short on data. If anything, they are saturated—dashboards, simulations, metrics, forecasts.
AI is advancing rapidly in prediction—forecasting demand, generating text, anticipating behavior. The gains are real. But the framing is incomplete.
Three tips to help organizations build bridges between creative and systematic thinkers
Energy markets are in turmoil. Prices are lurching, supply chains are being redrawn, and within weeks the confident forecasts will be quietly revised — and the new ones will be just as confident.
Revisiting the Central Planning Fallacy in the Age of AI
In the popular view, art is about creation, technology about invention, and science about discovery.
Thoughts in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Technology, and Art
In this provocative and visually striking book, Julio Mario Ottino and Bruce Mau offer a guide for navigating the intersections of art, technology, and science.
