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Welcome to Technitroxnext-gen tech in focus. My name is Michael Droste. After more than 30 years in the classroom teaching technology, my goal is to decode the future. This is a space for exploring the next wave of tech innovation, looking past the buzzwords to understand how tomorrow’s tools will truly impact our lives. It's about finding what's worth keeping as the next era of tech unfolds.

How AI Coding Engines Are Redefining Programming and the Future of Creation photo

How AI Coding Engines Are Redefining Programming and the Future of Creation

By Michael Droste — 25th February, 2026

In the matte glow of a monitor, strings of code appear almost like incantations — symbols that give life to abstract logic, elegant systems, or sprawling digital worlds. For decades, programmers have been the magicians of this realm, translating human intention into precise instruction. Today, a new collaborator has entered this arena: AI coding engines…

When Rockets Swallow Algorithms: The Trouble with the SpaceX - xAI Merger photo

When Rockets Swallow Algorithms: The Trouble with the SpaceX - xAI Merger

By Michael Droste — 15th February, 2026

The merger of SpaceX and xAI has been pitched as destiny: rockets feeding satellites, satellites feeding data, data feeding artificial intelligence. It’s a story that sounds inevitable in an age that worships scale. Bigger systems, bigger dreams, bigger futures. Yet inevitability is often just ambition wearing a lab coat, and this merger carries real ri…

Apple is Failing - Loosing Our Trust photo

Apple is Failing - Loosing Our Trust

By Michael Droste — 7th February, 2026

Apple once defined itself by opposition. Not just competition, but philosophy. Where Microsoft built sprawling software empires full of checkboxes, nags, and upsells, Apple sold restraint. Fewer options. Fewer interruptions. Fewer moments where the software leaned over your shoulder and asked for your credit card.

That distinction mattered. It wa…

Sam Altman and Jony Ive: The Deck-of-Cards Computer photo

Sam Altman and Jony Ive: The Deck-of-Cards Computer

By Michael Droste — 1st February, 2026

Imagine this: no slab of glowing glass in your hand. No endless scroll. No icon grid begging to be rearranged like digital furniture. Instead, there’s a small, quiet object—about the size of a deck of cards—resting in your pocket or purse. It doesn’t demand attention. It waits.

Around you, lightly, almost politely, are voice-enabled earpi…

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Subscription Fatigue

By Michael Droste — 26th January, 2026

Subscription Fatigue: Why Not Owning Anything Is Making Us Poorer, Angrier, and Powerless

There was a time—not long ago in historical terms—when you bought a thing and it became yours. A book sat on your shelf. A record lived in its sleeve. Software came in a box, worked offline, and didn’t ask for rent. That world is being quietly bulldoze…

After We Achieve Artificial General Intelligence: What Comes Next photo

After We Achieve Artificial General Intelligence: What Comes Next

By Michael Droste — 19th January, 2026

Artificial General Intelligence - AGI - is the moment machines stop being clever tools and start becoming true intellectual partners. Not faster calculators. Not better autocomplete. Minds that can learn, reason, and adapt across domains the way humans do. When that threshold is crossed, history doesn’t just turn a page. It changes the language it’s w…

The Great Unlocking: Why We Are Sleepwalking into a Quantum Apocalypse photo

The Great Unlocking: Why We Are Sleepwalking into a Quantum Apocalypse

By Michael Droste — 1st January, 2026

Humanity has never felt safer while being more exposed.

Every day, billions of people see a tiny padlock glow reassuringly in a browser bar and mistake symbolism for security. That icon has become a secular talisman. It tells us our bank transfers are safe, our medical records sealed, our confessions private. It whispers that the mathematics bene…

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Labor, Inequality, and Social Fabric

By Michael Droste — 27th December, 2025

Every society has a rhythm - how we work, how we’re paid, how we belong. Right now, that rhythm falters: the link between labor and dignity frays, and inequalities threaten communities. If we ignore this, we risk glorifying technology while overlooking its human cost.

Work shapes our days, communities, and sense of self. Thriving labor fosters …

Get a Human Is Dead: How Corporate Chatbots Broke Customer Service (On Purpose) photo

Get a Human Is Dead: How Corporate Chatbots Broke Customer Service (On Purpose)

By Michael Droste — 22nd December, 2025

Customer service used to mean friction, yes - but it also meant resolution. You waited, you complained, you escalated, and eventually a human with authority fixed the problem. Today, that entire social contract has been replaced by a glowing chat bubble that smiles, apologizes, and quietly ensures nothing actually happens.

Corporate chatbots are …

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Why AI Is Not Slop

By Michael Droste — 17th December, 2025

Calling AI “slop” is satisfying. It is blunt, visual, and emotionally accurate in moments when the internet feels flooded with junk. But it is also imprecise. AI is not slop. Slop is what happens when incentives, laziness, and scale collide with powerful tools. Confusing the tool with the outcome misses the real story.

Artificial intelligence…