Social networks have come a long way since the early days of MySpace and Friendster. Today, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are ubiquitous, and their influence on our daily lives cannot be overstated. But as we look to the future, social networks will deliver experiences and allow us to connect in ways we can only imagine. One of the most exciting developments on the horizon is the rise of virtual reality and the potential it holds for transforming the way we interact with each other online. Virtual Reality (VR) has been around for a while now, but it's only recently that the te ..read more

We live in an age where buzzwords like 'blockchain', 'cryptocurrency', and 'Bitcoin' abound. This article is an attempt to demystify blockchain technology and explain its key features. These features are central to giving blockchain technology its uniqueness, enables it to be used for multiple applications and enables it to be used to solve problems for which previously we did not have a solution. Having said that it also has some drawbacks. So let's dive into it. Decentralisation Decentralisation is a fundamental feature of blockchain technology. In a centralised system a single entity (e.g ..read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is keeping us on our toes with its swift evolution. It has permeated various domains - be it healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and beyond. As we keep pace with this technology, and it grows beyond simple machine learning and data processing, we venture deeper into the unexplored parts of AI, unearthing a wealth of transformative innovations. In this blog post, we unravel these intriguing aspects of AI, and their prospective impact on our technological landscape and outline a few interesting ways that AI is splitting into various sub-genres and fields of specialis ..read more

For those of you involved in Web3, you are likely aware that the sector is plagued with bad actors. Typically, we focus on deceitful founders and fraudulent projects that rug-pull and make off with millions of dollars of investor monies. However, recent newsworthy incidents have demonstrated that scams can occur in unexpected ways, resembling something out of a movie—and unfortunately, I almost fell victim to one. And what has been shown by this is that bad actors can sit on either side of the deal table. I don't want to rehash my experience but essentially it followed the Webaverse scam (sear ..read more

Access to finance is often critical for the success or continued progress of any entrepreneurial venture. However, women entrepreneurs often face many more challenges when it comes to securing funding compared to their male counterparts. At times, if you are a woman entrepreneur, especially if you are a minority woman entrepreneur or a woman solo-entrepreneur, it can feel like the odds are heavily (sometimes even impossibly!) stacked against you. Entrepreneurship, start-up ecosystems and private investments are the wild west. There are no fancy HR departments, or diversity policies, or sense o ..read more

The future of technology is rapidly evolving and promises to transform every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to the way we think and experience the world around us. We are now truly in an age where the future we saw in sci-fi movies is becoming our reality. It is an exciting time - one which is thrilling and at the same time overwhelming. We are developing at an exponential pace, and due to the pace of change, even people in the field of high-tech are struggling to understand, keep up with, and, in some cases, even control, what is happening. The possibilities of futu ..read more

The term "metaverse" has gained a lot of attention lately, especially since major tech companies such as Facebook made it a business priority. However, many people outside of the tech industry still struggle to understand what the metaverse is and how it works. Some wonder if it's a game, a virtual reality environment, or something larger in scale, like what was portrayed in movies such as Ready Player One. And if it exists right now, how do you access it? These are all fair questions, as the vision of the metaverse that most of us have in our minds, based on sci-fi movies, and the actuality o ..read more

Technology has been advancing at an unprecedented pace in recent years, with new breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfake technology making us question even the most basic things, things we took for granted, like whether we are who we say we are. Deepfakes (a combination of deep learning technology + fake) are AI-generated images or videos that are so convincing that they appear to be real. Deepfakes have been used to create fake news, to blackmail individuals, and to impersonate public figures. What I find particularly interesting about deepfakes is that they ..read more

A lot of people find it difficult to stay consistent with their boundaries and that is where boundary contracts can be useful. As a lawyer, I find that applying legal skills and critical approaches to parts of my life that are usually governed by emotional thinking helps me think more clearly and allows for more effective problem-solving. Boundaries in relationships are one of those areas that can benefit from more precision and logical thinking. Considering a relationship as a contract, with boundaries as terms of that contract, helps us pre-define areas which can cause confusion or which may ..read more

Self-sabotage creeps in unconsciously. Sometimes it launches a stealth attack. It often comes from a direction we weren't expecting. But the attacker is only ever ourselves. It prevents us from reaching goals, sometimes kicking in at the very moment we are on the precipice of achievement. It trips us up at the final hurdle. It makes us do things, looking back, that we can see were irrational, stupid or 'crazy' We don't understand why we acted the way we did, because we know we know better, but yet we feel, looking back, we just couldn't help ourselves. We were on a one-way train, it seems, and ..read more