The political implications of AI
Releasing OpenAI’s chat bot on the world is the first salvo in an arms race, and both companies and governments are ready for it. Are we?
can i be the first to report that social media is dead?
Social media is no longer social or media. And that’s deliberate; the battle for attention has morphed the medium into one more like a game. What comes next?
sensing our way out of interaction impoverishment
Interaction impoverishment: My pompous term for the things that we can’t do, and don’t seem able to imagine our way out of, when it comes to making our devices do what we want them to do. The key to all this — and where we might end up going — are down to those millimeter-dimension things we never see: sensors.
a solution to facebook: regulation, yes, but also a simpler tech
The future of social networks lies in simpler technology, not (just) in regulation, and definitely not in more complex technology.
were we ever free of walled gardens?
Reading through the documents released by the U.S. Judiciary Committee, I’m struck by how early we lost the war on walled gardens. I take a deeper dive and see where it all went wrong