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In early March 2026, Careem ran into serious trouble. Amazon announced that its data centers in the UAE and Bahrain had been hit by drone strikes, with full recovery expected to take a long time — making it the first known case of a major American tech company’s infrastructure being knocked offline by military action. Careem’s engineers pulled off something remarkable: a cross-regional infrastructure migration, completed in a single night. By morning, the lights were back on.

GPS arrived, and at some point we stopped reading maps. There was no decision made — it just happened, almost imperceptibly, over a few months of simply not needing to. A similar shift is now underway in finance: AI is taking over tasks that until recently counted as skilled, hands-on work. According to Deloitte, 87% of CFOs say AI will be very or extremely important to the finance function in 2026. The age of paper maps, it seems, has passed here too.

Information bubbles are now one of the core elements of the digital environment: platforms personalize feeds, search results, and recommendations to keep users inside their comfortable version of reality for as long as possible. The result is that people living on the same street — or even in the same building — increasingly receive fundamentally different accounts of what is happening in the world. Today we examine why this problem will only get worse.