"The rhythm of fasting from dawn to dusk, in prayer and charity, has endured through wars that redrew borders, pandemics that claimed millions of lives and waves of technological change that reshaped daily lives." https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/03/13/ramadan-eid-historical-images/

"…where clean electrons compete with dirty joules." https://www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supercycle

"Not everything is a task. Not every friction should be considered negative. Not everything needs to be done more quickly, more efficiently or more precisely…not everything is compressive, some things are donative." https://www.dezeen.com/2026/03/03/software-design-ai-nick-foster-opinion/

“With its sunny optimism and tendency to praise, ChatGPT is a Californian, one who has never suffered nor been held accountable for the consequences of its innovations.” https://www.noemamag.com/after-the-ai-revolution/

"The financial system, optimized over decades for a world of scarce human minds, is repricing. That repricing is painful, disorderly, and far from complete." https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

"…when the internet gets shut down by those in power for such a long time, there are usually rivers of blood already flowing through the streets." https://globalvoices.org/2026/02/27/irans-digital-prison-was-built-with-the-help-of-russians/

“…machine intelligence detected patterns, planetary intelligence provided signals, human intelligence held wisdom.” https://www.noemamag.com/our-emerging-planetary-nervous-system/

"…a vision for proving personhood in the age of AI. Quartz is a ring-based ledger that pairs modern cryptography with the oldest technologies of trust humans have: meeting in person." https://modemworks.com/projects/quartz/

"…they also create “an artificial reality,” where the dead are “alive and dead at the same time in your mind,” The long-term effects are unclear. “Technology should be a partner, not a substitute for human connection and emotional reckoning,” https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-deepfakes-grief-celebrations-india/

"…three areas of innovation that can help us fall back in love with the future: rebuilding collective narratives of progress; creating cultural spaces that reward experimentation over nostalgia; and restoring intergenerational responsibility for imagining what comes next." https://www.research-live.com/article/opinion/living-in-a-culture-of-futurelessness/id/5146793