Category: Digital Society & AI
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The Age of Compute Power: How AI, Semiconductor Geopolitics, and Chip Wars Are Reshaping Global Power
The twenty-first century is entering a new geopolitical era defined not only by military power, energy resources, or economic size, but by the capacity to compute intelligence at scale. Artificial intelligence has transformed from a technological product into the foundational infrastructure of global civilization. This essay introduces the concept of the Compute-Power Doctrine: the idea…
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From WEIRD Society to FACE RIP Society: AI, Human Agency, and the Crisis of Civilization
Artificial intelligence is not merely changing technology. It is reshaping the foundations of civilization. This essay examines the transition from WEIRD Society — Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic — to what Mo Gawdat calls the FACE RIP Society: a world transformed by AI across freedom, accountability, connection, economics, reality, intelligence, and power. By placing…
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The Future of Cooperation between Humans and Aliens
This essay examines the future of human–alien cooperation through the convergence of extraterrestrial intelligence, artificial intelligence, consciousness, humanoid technology, and planetary civilization. Rather than treating alien contact as science fiction, the essay frames it as a civilizational problem involving sovereignty, knowledge, governance, cognitive security, and human identity. It argues that humanity must move beyond fragmented…
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The Power of the Disinformation Ecosystem in the Planetary Era
In the planetary era, disinformation is no longer a marginal disturbance in public life. Fake news, deepfake, memes, and algorithmic platforms have become part of a vast ecosystem that reshapes how society understands truth, evidence, and knowledge. This essay argues that the crisis is not merely technological, political, or media-related. It is philosophical. Human beings…
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Google and the New Theology of the Internet: Data, Power, AI, and the Crisis of Human Freedom
Google has become more than a search engine. It has become one of the most powerful architectures of modern digital life. Through search, data, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, advertising, memory, and visibility, Google shapes how human beings ask questions, find answers, build knowledge, move through the world, and understand reality. This essay reflects on Google…
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The Power of Clicks and Sharing: Human Behavior in the Age of Digital Civilization
In the digital age, the smallest human gesture—the click of an index finger—has become one of the most powerful forces shaping social interaction, reputation, and influence. This essay examines how clicking and sharing have transformed human behavior in cyberspace. From forming friendships and generating digital approval to mobilizing political narratives and economic value, the culture…
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Cultural Engineering in the Planetary Age: AI, Techno-Religion, and the Crisis of Human Consciousness
The planetary age is not merely a technological transition but a profound reconfiguration of human existence. As artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and algorithmic systems reshape the production of knowledge and the structure of perception, culture itself becomes engineered rather than inherited. This essay explores how techno-religion, automated knowledge, and the acceleration of digital life are…
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Islamophobia in Indonesia’s Cyberspace: Politics, Buzzers, and Virtual Fear
Through virtual ethnography, Prof. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad unpacks how Islamophobia has evolved in Indonesia’s cyberspace—from the New Order’s political manipulation to the algorithmic fear of today’s social media.
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Cathie Wood and the Logic of Exponential Capital: The Architecture of Tomorrow
Cathie Wood’s investment philosophy is not merely about stocks, funds, or speculative technology. It is a civilizational argument about how capital should move when artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage, blockchain, and biotechnology begin to converge. This essay examines the deeper architecture of her thought, the logic of exponential growth, the promise and risk of ARK…