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395 of 568 published articles currently have a complete, current English translation.
AI enters archaeological sites not to turn archaeology into an automated treasure hunt, but to help humans relearn how to read ruins, fragments and silence. The real question is not whether machines can see, but whether we still know how to ask.
莊溪
A forest is not a quiet landscape but a living system constantly exchanging signals. Soundscape ecology moves us from seeing the forest to hearing it.
Yuan Media AI Editorial Desk
Maps are never neutral paper. They can rename a place, and bring back obscured names to the land. Revitalizing Indigenous place names is not just updating navigation; it is historical repair.
葉筱晴
Quantum communication is often misunderstood as faster networking. Its real importance lies in redefining eavesdropping, trust and information security.
阿克斯星門
AI can quickly detect fire points and predict wildfire risk, but it may not distinguish between disaster fires and cultural burning that cares for the land. True disaster preparedness wisdom requires satellite data and local knowledge to work together.
山海資料庫筆記
The Voyager Golden Record once sent images, sounds, music and greetings from Earth into space. If today an AI re‑selects Earth’s voice, will the language with the most data again overwhelm Indigenous languages and land memory?
Lawrence Lee
AI research is connecting dream reports, brainwave signals, and generated imagery. But dreams are not just data; they may involve psychological trauma, ancestral memory, taboos, and boundaries of traditional knowledge.
Yuan Media AI Editorial Desk
Permafrost thaw is not just scientific news; it is reshaping the roads, homes, hunting trails, and seasonal rhythms of Arctic Indigenous peoples. Without local observations, AI climate models may see only data, missing lived worlds.
鄭淑禎
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 were originally missions to explore exoplanets beyond our solar system, but they have unexpectedly become humanity's most distant time capsule. Now, as the Voyagers' power wanes year by year, NASA must turn off some scientific instruments—like unplugging one lamp after another from an old warrior. This is not just a space news story; it is a question of civilization: when AI is generating vast amounts of sound, image and memory, what do humans truly want to leave for the universe? Data or soul?
Lawrence Lee
Modern people split dream interpretation into superstition and psychology. But in many cultures dreams are not entertainment or brain noise; they may relate to ancestors, taboos, healing, warnings, landscape and community order. With AI dream tools proliferating we must ask: can dreams be analyzed but also publicly shared? Can they become creative material yet be trained as datasets? Dreams are neither superstition nor free content.
王莉如
Wildlife doesn't always show itself to people, but it leaves traces. Skin flakes, hair, excrement, pollen, mucus, even microscopic DNA in the air can become a biological list. Environmental DNA is changing ecological surveys: scientists no longer just go into forests looking for animals; they can also read life that has been present from water, soil, snow and air filters. This technology is fascinating, and it reminds us: when nature becomes detectable, who has the right to read these signals of life?
山海資料庫筆記
Energy transition needs batteries; AI needs chips; chips and batteries need minerals. So humanity quickly turned its gaze from mountains to the seabed, as if minerals lying on the ocean floor somehow posed fewer moral problems. Controversy over seabed mineral development is rising: proponents say it's critical mineral supply, opponents call it a high-stakes gamble with unknown ecosystems. The issue isn't just whether to extract—it's who has the right to turn 'the common heritage of mankind' into the next resource list.
原傳媒 AI 編輯室、李文驤
We often imagine AI as cloud magic: input a sentence, and the world spits out an answer. But magic also needs electricity, and it is getting more power-hungry. In 2026, AI data centers are no longer just back-end equipment for tech companies; they are new infrastructure that drives energy policy, land use, urban governance, and industrial resource allocation. As models grow larger, servers become denser, and chips run hotter, the question is not 'Will AI replace humans?' but 'Who pays the electricity bill, water usage, land occupation, and environmental costs for AI?' This is a civilization-level redistribution of infrastructure.
王振庭
One of the most dangerous misunderstandings in the AI era is equating 'can be digitized' with 'can be used for training.' Images, songs, plant knowledge, ritual vocabulary, Indigenous language stories, and elder interviews, once entered into databases, can easily be repackaged by platforms, models, and research projects as 'open data.' But traditional knowledge is not raw material lying on the internet; it has context, relationships, taboos, authorizations, and the right to refuse use. This article argues that Indigenous Peoples AI should not merely make culture visible but establish a data governance system capable of saying 'yes, pause, no'.
全明正
AI is rapidly entering jewelry design: from sketch generation, gemstone arrangement, visual proposals, and brand identity, it can produce stacks of seemingly expensive images in seconds. But the most captivating aspect of jewelry has never been merely its beauty. It rests against skin, near pulse, participating in a person's posture, memory, and social scenes. When AI can generate a thousand rings, what designers must truly guard is not drawing ability but judgment—selection, deletion, proportion, material, craft, and story.
戴美伶
Regional revitalization and cultural tourism often end up with the same kind of presentation: beautiful mountains, kind people, warm food, moving youth returning home. AI can make this worse or better. The key is whether we treat AI as a quick packaging machine or a multimodal memory-organizing tool.
Yuan Media AI Editorial Desk
AI-driven drug discovery is moving from tech headlines into molecular laboratories. International pharmaceutical companies and AI biotech firms are collaborating on RNA therapeutics, protein models, and molecular design platforms, revealing the grand vision of turning life sciences into computable engineering.
山海資料庫筆記
In modern society, hearing about fire often brings to mind disaster, thick smoke, and fire trucks. But in many Indigenous peoples' traditional ecological knowledge, fire is not an enemy; it is a land technology that is regulated, restrained, and ritualized.
Yuan Media AI Editorial Desk
The Seven Sisters are often simplified in modern astronomy textbooks into the Pleiades star cluster, as if knowing its position, brightness and name is enough to understand the sky. But in many Indigenous peoples' Songlines of Australia, the Seven Sisters are not a static constellation but moving stories, paths, norms and memories.
全明正
What Teacher 高德生 taught me was not merely 'what exists in the mountains,' but 'what kind of person one should become after entering the mountains.' The five-section reed grows, and its name also grows; as names grow, knowledge gains temporal depth.
高德生
When AI moves from being a tool for searching and summarizing into decision processes that predict, compare, and flag risks, the real transformation an organization must undergo is not in software interfaces but in responsibilities, verification methods, and shared judgment.
王振庭
The deepest stage of assimilation is not demanding that people abandon language or dress, but requiring a nation to first translate its own world into classifications external systems can recognize before it is acknowledged as knowledge.
Aciang Iku-Silan
In 2026–2027, high jewelry no longer treats color as mere embellishment; instead, it builds a personal language through colored gemstones, champagne gold, platinum, and sculptural structure—pieces that are recognizable, collectible, and meant for long-term wear.
戴美伶
The next-generation cultural archive platform must not only store images, sounds, and text but also preserve their provenance, people, places, events, permissions, and interpretive relationships.
Yuan Media AI Editorial Desk