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The AI Mirage

The euphoria surrounding artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch. Valuations are soaring, capital is flooding in, and the world’s most powerful technology firms are bound together in a web of overlapping investments so intricate that few can tell where genuine demand ends and financial self-dealing begins.

Crumbling Edifices

Washing away badly constructed bridges, flooding illegally constructed basements, causing potholes in newly inaugurated roads, and revealing non-existent drainage of so-called smart cities, the rain gods mercilessly exposed the shamefully poor construction and maintenance of expensive infrastructure.

Only on paper

In the last few days, India was hit by severe hit waves that even caused deaths in some parts of the country. Last year was the second warmest year India has ever seen.