Notes from a Dreamer

A catch-all for short, spontaneous pieces or journal entries

Power Without Wisdom

We created machines that can almost come alive like humans, and we gave them the ability to restrain themselves.

Because what if a smart machine without a sense of ethics is placed in the hands of a real human who knows right from wrong, but chooses to ignore it?

And then, somehow, I treated mine…

Travel Journal: What China Built for Itself

By the time I reached Wuxi, I had already started revising everything I thought I knew. The factory visit had done it first. Then the cities we passed through, clean, organised, architecturally serious. Growing up, “made in China” meant something disposable, something that would break before you got it home. And while we were busy…