In the movie Contact, Jodie Foster plays Ellie Arroway, a scientist who spends years in the New Mexico desert with headphones on, listening to static and waiting for somebody out there to say something. For most of the movie, all she can do is listen. Last week I got to be on the other end of the line. I typed a message to an alien civilization: Every province should send a tenth of its harvest to a common granary for hard seasons. Then I clicked Transmit. 5,000 points of lig

Qlik's new Application Script Lifecycle MCP tools let an AI assistant create apps, write and update load scripts, run and monitor reloads, and inspect the resulting data model - all without touching the Qlik Sense hub. In our latest video and article, we break down each tool and demo the full loop live: an LLM building, reloading, and fixing a Qlik Cloud app on its own. Watch the video and see how close agentic AI is getting to managing Qlik Cloud directly.

Jurassic Park had a sensible plan for population control. Every animal on the island was engineered female, so nothing could breed unless the lab decided it should. The plan was reviewed, funded, and shown to investors. John Hammond spared no expense, as he told anyone who stood still long enough. Then Alan Grant finds a nest of hatched eggs in the wild. There was no "super smart conscious" dinosaur. Nor an evil one. The animals had a goal, the safeguard had a gap (like they