26 2025 November
Why Young People Have Nostalgia for a Time Before They Were Born
Here’s an oxymoron for you: people are using AI generated images to evoke the nostalgia of the 90s—the last human decade without ubiquitous technology. This idea...
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The Truth About Toxic Words and Why Word Policing Doesn’t Work
In closed meetings leading up to the G20 Summit happening in South Africa this weekend, early reports note that in addition to the Trump administration...
Read Now19 2025 November
The Sad Shutdown of Teen Vogue
I wasn’t supposed to be a fan of this magazine. Yet for the last decade, I would talk about it on stage, subscribe to their...
Read Now18 2025 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu
Tim Wu is exactly the voice that we need right now to help imagine what the positive version of our technological future could be. Known...
Read Now17 2025 November
Why Kim Kardashian Deserves Something She Never Gets: Respect
Some people are saying that Kim Kardashian just had the “most terrible week ever,” but I don’t agree. The facts probably aren’t on my side....
Read Now12 2025 November
Electricity Will Be Free in the Future. In Australia, It Already Is.
Solar power in Australia costs about a third of what it currently costs in the US. As a result, more than 1 in 3 homes...
Read Now06 2025 November
Why Zohran Mamdani Won the NY Mayoral Election
The day after stories of Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise and win of the NY city Mayoral election were everywhere this week. The best recap I read...
Read Now05 2025 November
Bill Gates Now Says We Are Fighting Climate Change Wrong …
Something unusual was amiss in the media this week: climate activists were hating on Bill Gates. It all started with Gates publishing a blog post...
Read Now31 2025 October
All Online Outrage Is Fake
Remember the “outrage” generated online by the revised logo for Cracker Barrel restaurant? According to a new piece this week from the WSJ, much of...
Read Now30 2025 October
Lessons From the Reinvention of Pittsburgh into an AI Robotics Hub
Pittsburgh was known for steel. Now the city has ambitions to become a hub for something else: AI and robotics. The pieces seem to be...
Read Now27 2025 October
Can The Ring Camera Eliminate Neighborhood Crime In 12 Months?
Thanks to advancements in AI and the ubiquity of the Ring household doorbell cameras, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes we might be twelve months away...
Read Now22 2025 October
The Next Generation of Gig Work Will Be Microtasking
This week Uber announced that they will have a new offering where gig works can choose to take on “microtasks” such as training AI models...
Read Now09 2025 October
Beyond Self Driving, Future Cars May Be Emotionally Attuned Too
For all the attention on self-driving capabilities of cars coming in the future, there is a wave of research happening now into vehicle-driver interactions that is yielding...
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