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A centipede was happy – quite! // Until a toad in fun // Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?" // This raised her doubts to such a pitch, // She fell exhausted in the ditch // Not knowing how to run. — Katherine Craster (1871)
People: The Flâneur. The soft life. Eclipse for the blind? Ikea gaming furniture. Nike’s AI-generated sneakers.
Tech: Qubits progress. Bacteria to leach metals from LiIon batteries. Light-based AI chip. Titanium alloy metamaterials. Futures-proofing infrastructure, while RIBA launches their RIBA Horizons 2034.
Defence: Wargaming according to deftech.ch (PDF)- bonus, “Hackers ouvert”. Drone on drone combat. Atmospherics (PMESII-PT).
AI: AI and construction, and project management (PDF). Robots to take our jobs.. now for 100+ y. AI panic as a business. Business schools are incorporating AI into their curriculums and coursework, including short "15-minute bursts" of AI use. Deloitte discusses how AI is fast-charging government services. 90% of online content will be generated (in 2026). Law&AI - EU AI-Act and GP-AI, and transparency. Small language models are (again) rising.
