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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 Today, that entire social contract has been replaced by a glowing chat bubble that smiles, apologizes, and quietly ensures nothing actually happens.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 …

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…

When Disney inks a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and licenses more than 200 of its iconic characters to the Sora generative-AI platform, we’re not observing a novelty - we’re witnessing a tectonic shift in the entertainment economy. The partnership signals Hollywood’s pivot from fearful resistance to strategic collaboration, even as unions and c…

We stand at a crossroads. The machines we’ve built - powerful, seductive, unpredictable - demand a question more ancient than code: who watches the watchers? As generative and autonomous AI systems proliferate, our society must deliberate who gains, who loses, and how we anchor emerging power in human values.

By design, AI tends to amplify the …