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When Intelligence Becomes Cheap, What Happens to Being Human?
AI is making intelligence increasingly abundant. Writing, research, coding, design, and countless other skills can now be produced in seconds. But if machines can perform the things humans spent their lives mastering, what happens to our skills, our identity—and ultimately, our sense of what makes us valuable?
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The AI Revolution Won’t Make Everyone Rich. It Will Make the Gap Much Bigger
Artificial intelligence will almost certainly create enormous wealth. But the real question isn’t whether AI will make society richer—it’s who will own that wealth, who will benefit from it, and who will be left behind. The AI revolution could democratize opportunity, or it could make the gap between the powerful and everyone else much wider.
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The Death of an Illusion: Why At 38, I Have Finally Lost Hope in Pakistan
For most of my life, loving Pakistan felt as natural as breathing. Since I was a child growing up in a country defined by resilience and fractured promises, I held onto an unwavering, fierce patriotism, the kind shared by millions of Pakistanis who genuinely believe that tomorrow has to be better than today. Now, at…
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The Anatomy of Institutional Decay: How Lt. Gen (r) Asim Munir Rewrote Pakistan’s Social Contract
For decades, the political narrative in Pakistan has danced around a familiar friction: the tug-of-war between civilian authority and the military establishment. However, under the tenure of Lt. Gen (r) Asim Munir, that friction has transformed into a systemic dismantling of constitutional norms and state institutions. What critics and public forums openly decry goes beyond…
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Pakistan at the Edge: How Asim Munir’s Power Grab Threatens the Nation
Pakistan today is being dragged into a dangerous abyss. At the center of this crisis stands self-appointed Field Marshal Asim Munir, the de facto Army Chief, whose every move seems designed not to protect the country, but to cement his grip on power. His actions are leaving no stone unturned in dismantling the professional structure…
Welcome to The Last Good Decade, a digital time capsule dedicated to celebrating the peak of human culture in the 1990s—when dial-up chimes replaced existential dread, Blockbuster weekends were sacred, and the future still looked bright—while chronicling the slow, fascinating decline of modern society ever since we traded our Walkmans for algorithmic despair.
