AI is powerful, but it's not magic
https://tribune.com.pk/article/98100/ai-is-powerful-but-its-not-magic
Media Source: The Express Tribune (Pakistan)
Date: 5 January 2026
2025 was not a year of pause. It was a year of acceleration. Technology continued to redefine industries, societies and personal lives. Artificial intelligence moved from experimental novelty to mainstream utility, while extended reality, blockchain and sustainable energy solutions began shaping the future in tangible ways.…
2025 was not a year of pause. It was a year of acceleration. Technology continued to redefine industries, societies and personal lives. Artificial intelligence moved from experimental novelty to mainstream utility, while extended reality, blockchain and sustainable energy solutions began shaping the future in tangible ways. Looking ahead to 2026, opportunities to deploy technology for humanity are substantial. In healthcare, AI powered wearables and smart patches will shift care from reactive treatment to proactive prevention, predicting cardiac events and chronic conditions earlier. Early-stage organ bioprinting and increasingly mainstream brain computer interfaces promise to redefine accessibility for people with disabilities and accelerate personalised medicine. “Technology is not an end in itself. It is a means to improve lives. In 2026, the defining question will not be what we can build, but what we should build. Every breakthrough must serve pressing human needs including health, equity, sustainability and trust,” argues Shaukat Ali Khan, advisor to the President on Information and Communication Technology at the Aga Khan University.