18 - Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT)

Prabhát Saḿgiita — Some Salient Features and Musical Expression of Neohumanism

By Editor 18/04/2026uncategorizedNo Comments

What is the significance of the name Prabhát Saḿgiita? From the name, apparently one would conclude that this school of music has been named after its composer, Prabhát Ranjan Sarkar.…

Emerging Technologies in Creative Industries – Are They Sustainable and Ethical?

By Editor 17/04/2026uncategorizedNo Comments

Digital technologies to empower artists by decentralising commercial operations and reducing dependence on intermediaries Introduction Emerging technologies used in relation to creative industries include blockchain systems, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and…

Responsibility in Generative AI for Inaccurate/Insensitive Outputs from Use of Low-Resource Languages

By Editor 17/04/2026uncategorizedNo Comments

Low-resource language communities themselves should not be burdened with the primary obligation to correct harms arising, and imposed on them, from GAI systems. Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is a form…

Anti-Exploitation Sentiment and Need for Positive Vision

By Editor 06/04/2026uncategorizedNo Comments

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement took place in the USA in 2011. It captured public imagination, spread rapidly across hundreds of cities, and briefly suggested the possibility of systemic…

What values would govern the use of blockchain ledger technology in cooperative economic contexts?

By Editor 01/04/2026economic democracy, economics, socio-economic, technologyNo Comments

Some preliminary thoughts and ideas – what evolves remains to be seen! An idealised decentralised blockchain ledger system is a distributed network in which no single authority controls the record…