Amir Husain

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Amir Husain

India has long toyed with the idea of turning water into a weapon. The threat isn’t new. What is new is how that threat is now being voiced more openly. Following the 2016 Uri attack, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, “blood and water cannot flow together,” and convened a high-level meeting to explore ways to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty.

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Amir Husain

The Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) recent performance against the Indian Rafale platform has taken even seasoned observers by surprise. In the largest aerial battle since the end of the Second World War, a total of six kills were recorded by the PAF, three of which constituted the much-hyped French-built Rafale fighter. Reeling from these losses, the Indian Air Force initially denied them, but with time pictures of crash sites appeared. Then, the French Le Monde newspaper confirmed the loss.

4 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Amir Husain

. Aug. 2025. 272p. ISBN 9781541605718. $30. TECH COPY ISBN AI entrepreneur and evangelist Husain ( Serious Machines: The Story of the Computers That Built the Modern World) states that his intention with this book is to encourage enthusiasm rather than apprehension about what he terms the cybernetic society.

1 month ago | medium.com | Amir Husain

Pakistan currently relies on China and other satellite launch vehicle provides to deploy its satellites to orbit. This approach has worked very well, in the near future, it may make logical sense for the country to acquire a cost-effective, strategically independent SLV capability. And the country’s aerospace industry has reached an advanced state of development sufficient to attempt such a capability.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Amir Husain

The Bass Concert Hall turned dark, seeming almost cavernous. A low frequency electronic pulse filled the air, mechanical yet strangely alive. Scintillating. Vibrating. Evocatively turning deep, electronic guttural sounds into something that resembled human speech. Deconstructing information into component frequencies. In Austin, far from Düsseldorf and Zürich, Kraftwerk performed what may be one their last world tours. Florian Schneider is gone. Ralf Hütter is 78.