- Burning Down The House
If you’re going to breakup with Twitter, it’s not enough to close your account. You’ve got to figure out how to get others to consider it too.
- Burning Down The HouseIf you’re going to breakup with Twitter, it’s not enough to close your account. You’ve got to figure out how to get others to consider it too.
- 22A recollection of 9/11 22 years later and a meditation on why it’s important to keep digital content online as a record.
- AI Copyright : It’s complicatedWhen it comes to AI copyright, there are many factors to consider. Creators, users, and companies are all jostling for position.
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Technology
- The Generative AI Doom LoopCan Generative AI’s dependency on the web as primary source survive?
- “The Vision Thing”The Apple Vision Pro unveiled this week is not a product for now. It’s a vision of the future based on where the recent past has been.
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- Are We Breaking the Internet?Whether it is the recent S3 outage or the recent cloudflare security bug, we’re learning about the dangers of over-centralization.
Business
- AI Copyright : It’s complicatedWhen it comes to AI copyright, there are many factors to consider. Creators, users, and companies are all jostling for position.
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Media
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- The Incumbent ChallengeYou can’t lead an insurgency from the top
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- Cable Not TVThe battle over cable acquisition is about the next big internet providers
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Politics
- An American TragedyThe attack on the US Capitol, which I’m sure will be known as January 6, represent America losing its moral leadership.
- The New WarTwo camps are forming in the world: on one side, networked people who believe in facts; on the other, individualists who believe in conspiracies.
- A Time for HopeThe Notre Dame fire presents all of us with an opportunity to change course and become much more hopeful about the future.
- 2019 PredictionsStarting into the crystal ball – 2019 edition: Political instability, privacy erosion, chatbots, Fornite, Media rebalancing.
Society
- Beware the AI HypeTo believe AI will destroy humanity, you must first believe the AI Hype presented by its proponents. Here’s why you don’t need to worry yet.
- Alone TogetherIn the Extended Reality world, two camps are forming: one that is focused on social use, the other focused on personal worlds.
- Today’s Tech, Tomorrow’s WorldThe world of tomorrow looks different but the technology to make it a reality is already widely available.
- We The PeopleWorld War II defeated Nazis. What happened in Charlottesville was Un-American and should be condemned by any American patriot.
Personal
- 22A recollection of 9/11 22 years later and a meditation on why it’s important to keep digital content online as a record.
- 21September 11, 21 years later. Reflection on trauma from a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
- 20Reflections on 9/11, 20 years later. For many, it’s gone but for those of us who were there, the gap it left is still present.
- 19Reflecting on 9/11, 19 years later. This year, COVID reminds us of the push/pull of history and puts the death count of 9/11 in perspective.