School of Disruption

School of Disruption Identifying and analysing emerging trends and technologies that have the potential to disrupt existi

The Swiss Institute for Disruptive Innovation (SIDI) is an organization founded in 2015 by a group of researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. SIDI identifies, studies, and explores opportunities and risks of upcoming disruptive innovations to thoroughly guide enterprises, institutions, and public administrations to unleash their growth potential. Our institute aims to turn future t

hreats into opportunities by analyzing emerging trends and technologies with the potential to disrupt existing processes and produce a meaningful change in economic and social systems. We believe that in an ever-changing world, it is essential to think in terms of systems. Democratizing access to innovation becomes the fundamental driver to allow the world to grow while facing the challenges of the future.

Researchers just published a warning in Science, one of the world’s most authoritative journals, signed by 20 scientists...
07/05/2026

Researchers just published a warning in Science, one of the world’s most authoritative journals, signed by 20 scientists from 8 countries, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
 
Their finding: AI swarms — coordinated fleets of hyper-realistic AI personas — can now infiltrate online communities, adapt in real time, and manufacture the illusion that millions of people agree on something.
They call it synthetic consensus.
 
It’s not propaganda. It’s something more insidious: the engineering of reality itself.
The question isn’t whether this is happening. It already is.
The question is: what do you trust, and why?
 
📄 Source: Schroeder et al. (2026). “How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy.” Science, 391(6783). DOI: 10.1126/science.adz1697
 
 
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Space Law - Free Live Webinar -TODAY🗓️ March 25🕛 9 pm CETSpace law used to be niche. Now law firms are actively building...
25/03/2026

Space Law - Free Live Webinar -TODAY

🗓️ March 25
🕛 9 pm CET

Space law used to be niche. Now law firms are actively building teams around it.

As the space sector becomes more commercial and more regulated, legal work is no longer limited to treaties and diplomacy. Today it involves licensing, liability, compliance, insurance, dispute resolution, and risk management for real businesses operating in orbit.

One-hour live session with space law expert Veronica Moronese, who will share insights from her research along with real-world cases on jurisdiction, liability, and criminal law beyond Earth.

🔗 Free Registration here: https://event.webinarjam.com/krzp4/register/gq4zkcng?webinar_id=240&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=space%20law%20webinar%2025-03

23/03/2026

In 2019, the first alleged crime in space was investigated aboard the International Space Station: a NASA astronaut was accused of unauthorized access to a bank account.

As human activity expands into orbit, legal systems are being pushed beyond their limits. What happens if a crime is committed in space—and who is responsible for enforcing justice?

Join our free webinar on March 25 with Veronica Moronese, Space Lawyer and Director of Legal Affairs & Space Law at ThinkOrbital.

We’ll explore:
[✅] Jurisdiction in space: which country has authority?
[✅] How criminal law applies aboard the ISS and future space stations
[✅] Enforcement challenges: who investigates and prosecutes crimes in orbit
[✅] The role of private companies in space law and accountability
[✅] Future frameworks for policing and governance beyond Earth

Free registration at the link in bio.

NASA is sending humans toward the Moon again, for the first time in 54 years. 🌕On February 8 (earliest target), Artemis ...
02/02/2026

NASA is sending humans toward the Moon again, for the first time in 54 years. 🌕
On February 8 (earliest target), Artemis II will launch four astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, retracing a path last flown in 1972.

This mission won’t land on the Moon.

It will test Orion, life-support systems, navigation and human performance in deep space, looping around the Moon before returning to Earth.

Artemis II is a rehearsal for what comes next:
long-duration missions, lunar surface operations, and a sustained human presence beyond Earth.

A recent study by the MIT Media Lab used EEG brain scans to observe what happens in the brain when people write with and...
20/01/2026

A recent study by the MIT Media Lab used EEG brain scans to observe what happens in the brain when people write with and without AI tools.

Same task. Different tools. Very different brains.

🧪 Study design

• 54 participants, ages 18–39
• Divided into 3 groups
• Group 1: wrote with ChatGPT
• Group 2: wrote using Google Search
• Group 3: wrote with no digital assistance
• Brain activity measured across 32 EEG regions

📉 What the brain scans showed

• Lowest overall brain engagement in the ChatGPT group
• Reduced neural connectivity in areas linked to:
– memory formation
– sustained attention
– planning and executive control
• The unaided group showed the strongest and most distributed brain activity
• Google Search users fell in between

🧠 Behavioral outcomes

• ChatGPT users became increasingly passive over time
• Heavy reliance on copy-paste instead of self-generated reasoning
• Poor recall of what they had just written
• Output quality looked fine, but learning and retention were weaker

⚠️ The study doesn’t claim AI “damages” the brain.
But it does show something unsettling: when thinking is outsourced, the brain disengages.
Brains adapt to habits.
If AI becomes the default, not the tool, the risk isn’t efficiency.
The risk is using the brain less… and it responding accordingly.

About 60 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are in the process of merging: NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, collectively...
12/01/2026

About 60 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are in the process of merging: NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, collectively known as the Antennae Galaxies.
These galaxies are interacting through gravity in a slow collision that will take hundreds of millions of years to complete. Despite the dramatic name, this is not a violent crash. Galaxies are mostly empty space, so direct collisions between stars are extremely rare.

What actually interacts is interstellar matter. As the two galaxies pass through each other, vast clouds of gas and dust are compressed by gravitational forces. This compression triggers intense bursts of star formation, creating large clusters of young, massive stars.

At the same time, gravity stretches and distorts both galaxies, pulling out long tidal tails that give the Antennae Galaxies their name. These tidal structures are clear evidence of how mergers permanently reshape galactic structure and dynamics.

Galactic collisions like this are a fundamental mechanism of cosmic evolution. Most large galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, were built through multiple mergers over billions of years.

Studying systems like the Antennae Galaxies allows scientists to understand how galaxies grow, how stars are born, and how matter is redistributed on the largest scales in the universe.

For the first time, a live trapped-ion quantum computer is being operated through the cloud, allowing users anywhere in ...
08/01/2026

For the first time, a live trapped-ion quantum computer is being operated through the cloud, allowing users anywhere in the world to control real physical qubits remotely, without on-site supervision.

Not a simulator.
Not a controlled demo.
Not a guided lab session.

Researchers at Osaka University achieved something unusually hard: they automated the most fragile layers of trapped-ion systems — ion loading, laser alignment, calibration, and resets — to the point where the machine can run continuously without constant human intervention.
That’s the breakthrough.

The system maintained ~94% gate fidelity across 1,000 consecutive operations.
Which means this isn’t symbolic access. It’s operational access.

Japan is now doing something no one else is doing yet: developing large-scale commercial quantum hardware domestically, while simultaneously exposing a real academic quantum system to global, remote use.

If this model scales, quantum computing stops being a place you visit under supervision.
It becomes something you log into.
This isn’t just a milestone.

It’s a new operating mode for quantum computing.

Credits: Osaka University researchers

When people imagine a space war, they picture weapons and satellites being destroyed. The real risk looks very different...
19/12/2025

When people imagine a space war, they picture weapons and satellites being destroyed. The real risk looks very different.

Multiple space agencies and scientific studies confirm that water ice exists on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. In space, water is not just a resource. It is fuel, oxygen, and the key to long-term presence.
Whoever controls access to water controls mobility, energy, and survival.

The problem is that space water is rare, unevenly distributed, and extremely costly to reach. On the Moon, for example, most ice is concentrated in permanently shadowed polar regions. Access to those areas creates an immediate strategic advantage.

Experts largely agree that the first space conflicts will not be military in the traditional sense. They will emerge through competition over access, legal ambiguity, economic pressure, and strategic positioning around critical resources.

This is why space law is no longer theoretical.

Through the Artemis Accords, the first operational rules for behavior and resource utilization in space are already being set. They legitimize the use of resources like water and establish norms that will shape what is considered acceptable in the future.

The first space war, if it happens, won’t begin with explosions.�It will begin with rules.
Understanding this now matters, because the precedents being set today will define how space is governed for decades.

🔗 Want to dive deeper? Explore our Space Law course at the link in bio

🎄 This Christmas, invest in your future.For a limited time, access School of Disruption’s certified, on-demand courses o...
17/12/2025

🎄 This Christmas, invest in your future.

For a limited time, access School of Disruption’s certified, on-demand courses on AI Ethics, the space ecosystem (law, psychology, marketing, architecture), quantum technologies, 3D bioprinting and more.

Learn from professionals and practitioners working at the frontier of innovation, and join a global, interdisciplinary community where skills connect and opportunities emerge.

Discover the offer at the Link in Bio

NASA’s latest visuals show Jupiter in extraordinary detail. 🔎Massive storms move across its atmosphere, bands of gas col...
17/12/2025

NASA’s latest visuals show Jupiter in extraordinary detail. 🔎
Massive storms move across its atmosphere, bands of gas collide, and colors reveal the planet’s extreme weather systems.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Its magnetic field is the strongest of any planet, and its gravity shapes the space around it. Some of its storms have been active for hundreds of years. The Great Red Spot alone is bigger than Earth. More than 90 moons orbit Jupiter, making it a planetary system of its own.

These images aren’t just data or discovery.
They’re a quiet reminder that the universe has been creating masterpieces long before we learned how to look.

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