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From the editor's desk: A little bit of magic
May 2026, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Whatever your view is of America today, the Artemis II mission showed the world that it can still deliver moments of wonder. For a few days, the chaotic headlines gave way to something more. Who could ...

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From the Editor's desk: The AI paradox
April 2026, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
AI has only been around in everyday life for a couple of years, but it’s resulted in a huge need for data storage and processing. The race to plug it into everything means that data centres are being ...

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From the Editor's desk: Under African skies
March 2026, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
There’s magic happening in the Northern Cape. I’m excited and fascinated by the story of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), just one of South Africa’s many Centres of Excellence. Our radio astronomy ...

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From the editor's desk: A tool not a crutch
I&C February 2026, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Every year, the dictionaries try to summarise a year of human behaviour with a single word, the word of the year. You can question the value of this, but it’s quite entertaining. Words are important, ...

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From the editor's desk: Where is AI taking us?
January 2026, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
      Welcome to another year with SA Instrumentation & Control. May it be a happy and healthy one where you can rise to the challenges ahead and still enjoy all the good things we have in this country.  ...

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From the editor's desk: The joy of science
November 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Scientific innovation is the basis of automation, and I always enjoy following the scientific Nobel prizes each year. I thought I had figured out how quantum computers work, but the physics prize this ...

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From the Editor's Desk: The human side of automation
October 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Spring is here, holidays are getting closer and there’s a new energy in the air. With this in mind, in this issue we cover the very important topic of ECSA registration. SAIMC’s COO, Gerhard Greeff, ...

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From the Editor's desk: What happened to the metaverse?
September 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
One of the most interesting technical crashes in recent years is the metaverse. As recently as 2022, it was white hot, with massive hype led by Meta. Even Bill Gates was saying that in two to three years ...

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From the editor's desk: Turning the tide
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
      Welcome to our Technews Industry Guide on Sustainable Manufacturing. This is my third one, and much has changed. Two years ago we were in Stage 6 loadshedding, and government policies were preventing ...

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From the editor's desk: The new space race
August 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Today is the 55th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the Moon. It made me think of an interesting report that captured my attention earlier this year. Within the space ...

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From the editor's desk: Riding the hype cycle
July 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
The other day I came across an entertaining article on the ten biggest tech failures of the last decade. Google Glass, 3D TV and Elon Musk’s hyperloop have faded into obscurity. Others, like the metaverse, ...

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From the editor's desk: The age of superintelligence
June 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
      In this issue of SA Instrumentation & Control we say farewell to our longstanding contributing editor, Michael Brown, who is retiring soon. His outstanding contribution over the years in the field of ...

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From the editor's desk: A good servant and a bad master
May 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
In our new AI-generated world it was inevitable that the Nobel Committee would have noticed. And last November two pioneers of artificial intelligence, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, won the Nobel Prize ...

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From the editor's desk: A new disruption
March 2025, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Just when we thought we had our minds around ChatGPT, another large language model is causing havoc. This time it’s a Chinese one called DeepSeek, which was released on 20 January 2025 and on 27 January ...

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