The blue collar robots are almost here
The days of unionised labor are coming to an end. With the increasing stranglehold big corporations have on global production and the rise of robotics…
The New Monopolists: How Spotify and Netflix turned creativity into a data Mine
There’s a sound that once defined art. The soft click of a record-store cash register – a tiny percussion marking a fair exchange. You gave…
Steve Jobs: “Your presentation is pedantic and boring.”
It wasn’t one of Steve Jobs’ longer emails. Just six brutal words, rattled off as easily as he might say, “Have a good day.” The…
Job Opportunity: Chief Digital Plumber (CDP)
(also known as “Supreme Warden of the National Pipework, Keeper of the Sacred API, and Slayer of Legacy Systems”) About the Role In an age…
Nadella Fixed Microsoft’s Culture. Then He Forgot About Ours.
In April of 1975, two young men in Albuquerque dreamed of putting a computer on every desk and in every home. Half a century later,…
The Great Dumbing Down – My AI Assistant Is Part of a Conspiracy to Lobotomize Civilization
A True Story of Digital Condescension and Intellectual Warfare It started innocently enough. There I was, minding my own business, having crafted what I considered…
What Happened to Asimov’s Safeguard?
In 1942, Isaac Asimov imagined a safeguard. He called it the Zeroth Law of Robotics: a machine must never harm humanity, nor through inaction allow…
Decentralized AI, Web3 and the future of brand identity
As AI models, search engines, and CMS platforms struggle in an apparent death match, businesses are left wondering what to do with their Web presence….
Netflix House: The Circus of Declining Innovation
The moral essence for second-hand imitation – From Pyjamas to Parking Lots Once upon a time, Netflix was a revolutionary. It was the outlaw hiding…
AI Agents: The New Crime Syndicate
Artificial intelligence has always promised to remove friction from our digital lives. It whispers of an easier future: no more tedious searches, no more repetitive…
A suggested letter From an Awakened CEO
Esteemed Colleagues, Partners, and Board Members: I address you today with resolute clarity regarding our organization’s trajectory amidst this unprecedented confluence of technological and societal…
THE EMBARRASSMENT ENGINE
There are many kinds of corporate embarrassment. There’s the garden-variety typo in a press release, the mistimed post that accidentally wishes everyone a happy Arbor…