Breaking Barriers – Page 3 – Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future

August 24, 2025 / cary / Policy

Why Your Utility Bill is Funding the AI Boom

They don’t look like much from the highway. Vast anonymous boxes with no windows, buzzing…

August 20, 2025 / cary / Education

There’s something almost subversive about Anki. In a world where every app is designed to…

August 19, 2025 / cary / Ethics

There’s a woman I know who makes chicken pot pie every Tuesday. Last week, she…

August 15, 2025 / cary / Finance

Every once in a while, a problem comes along that is so big, so intertwined…

August 14, 2025 / cary / Ethics

Jenna runs a 35-person coffee roastery in the foothills of North Carolina. It’s the kind…

August 13, 2025 / cary / Finance

Most people think of inflation as a four-letter word in economic form. Prices go up,…

August 11, 2025 / cary / Rights and Equality

Here’s the thing about breakthrough technologies: they don’t announce themselves with fanfare. They creep up…

August 6, 2025 / cary / Education

What happens when we stop asking how much people make and start asking how fairly…

August 5, 2025 / cary / Art

The man sits in his kitchen at 2:47 p.m. on a Tuesday in late August,…

August 4, 2025 / cary / Finance

A $5 billion war chest. Global investors from Saudi Arabia to Singapore. And LeBron James…