Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result…

What Steve Jobs understood about messy careers that most people miss? Image credit – Wikimedia Almost twenty years since Steve Jobs’ famous speech at Stanford University’s graduation ceremony, one section of that speech has remained memorable for people across the globe who are students, professionals, or entrepreneurs. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you…

‘A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving’ Picture a traveller standing at a busy intersection in a foreign city. Her phone battery dies, taking her maps, digital tickets, and step-by-step plans with it. Instead of panicking, she puts the phone in her pocket, turns down a side street lined…

More than 40 years after the Mount St. Helens eruption buried a Washington river valley under volcanic sediment, 58 relocated beavers have helped restore the damaged landscape. (Representational AP photo) More than four decades after the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens, one family in the US state of Washington has watched a damaged landscape…