Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Elon Musk vows to start a new political party after Trump feud. Here’s why that’s harder than it sounds
Elon Musk’s threat to start a third major political party has been met with widespread skepticism, as critics pointed to numerous failed bids over decades to disrupt America’s two-party system. […]
Setting the Stage for Global Harmony: First Official Discussion on the AIWS Music for Humanity Movement
On July 4, 2025, a landmark discussion will officially launch the vibrant AIWS Music for Humanity...
Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing
By performing deep learning at the speed of light, this chip could give edge devices new...
Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals, but their grand...
Boston Global Forum Announcement:“Amplifying Human Creativity and Problem Solving with AI Through Generative Collective Intelligence”
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is pleased to introduce a groundbreaking new paper by BGF Board...
Post-CMOS Photonic Integration
Anna Lena Schall-Giesecke Integrated photonics leveraging CMOS technology could help pioneer the...
AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention
This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday...
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency
This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip,...
Responsibility or Chaos: Finance’s Historic Choice
Finance shapes the world. The only question is: in which direction? Every investment...