Hannes Marais

Imagine for a moment that all the systems you rely on vanished without warning: electricity, internet, and phone service are suddenly gone. Payments cannot go through, and even cash seems useless in a way you never expected. What would you do? What would happen to those around you—your team,

If the world’s economic story is a long, slow unfurling at the edges, technology today is its twin—a force gathering not in the clamor of headlines, but in the quiet repetition of the everyday, and in the charged stillness before surprise. This becomes obvious the moment you set

In a future not so far from our own, there existed an AI with a mind like a cathedral — grand, intricate, echoing with endless corridors of thought. This AI could dream up patterns, invent symphonies of logic, and measure the curvature of ideas. But there was one thing it would

Why U.S. Auto Manufacturing Can’t Relocate at Political Speed By Innovation Algebra Abstract Calls to “reshore” American manufacturing have intensified, with the automotive sector once again at the center of debate. The 25% tariff on imported auto parts—newly proposed under President Trump’s trade agenda—seeks to

A lot is happening in AI right now: new chips, shifting regulations, cultural debates, economic speculation. But underneath the headlines, something more subtle is taking form—quietly reshaping the structure of authority, the clarity of protest, and the role of language itself. At first glance, the news seems familiar: China’

Once, in a bright and bendy village, people lived in big squishy tents. The tents were fun. They wobbled and bounced when the wind blew. Sometimes they leaned into each other like friends. Everyone liked the wiggles. It made walking feel like dancing. Except for one house. This house did