In a recent podcast appearance, filmmaker James Cameron, known for movies like Avatar  and Titanic , shared his thoughts on the essential differences between artificial and human intelligence. Cameron compares the human brain to a 1.5 kg biological computer. Technological metaphors for the body are nothing new. But while AI relies on vast amounts of data, we learn from experience—making our cognitive process even more efficient. According to Cameron, current AI systems still cannot truly...

Speculative fiction is more than just storytelling—it's an idea laboratory, a space where we can transcend current experiences and materialize them into alternative realities. In the field of  speculative design , this approach becomes even more potent, allowing us to explore social, socio-technical, political, and technological systems that could have existed—or might still exist—if certain historical variables had been different. It helps us  question dominant trajectories  and  stimulate...

What This Text Presents: A critical analysis of how generative artificial intelligence (GAI)  reproduces patterns of digital colonialism , based on: 1. Exploitation of the Global South Data extraction  (treated as free raw material) Mineral extraction  (e.g., cobalt from the Congo) Precarious labor  in AI training (e.g., underpaid annotators in Kenya or India) 2. Alternatives from the South China  (DeepSeek – efficient AI using local data) India  (Bhashini – AI for marginalized languages)...