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Stories of Discontinuity
Every vision of the future is fiction. Some are just more comfortable than others.
Agents Are Taking the Wheel
While Europe’s workers quietly outperform their American counterparts, a generation of laptop-schooled kids arrives cognitively underpowered – and…
The Chat Era Is Over
AI agents are going rogue, white-collar jobs are hollowing out, and the tools for impersonating anyone are now disturbingly good — the agentic future…
The Bifurcation of Intelligence
Why an “AI Ready” strategy might just be a BlackBerry moment in an iPhone world.
The AI Efficiency Trap
Amazon abandons the physical world, Europe declares war on Visa, and the UK’s disastrous approach to automated labor
The AI Godsend Paradox
Why the 1% improvement rule is changing everything, coding is now a fifteen-minute task, and we face the uncomfortable reality that AI only works if you…
The Great AI Delusion
While Microsoft begs for permission to burn energy, MIT finds ChatGPT weakens your brain, and the first bespoke gene-edited baby arrives.
When AI Eats Itself
While datacenters drink our water supply, Moore’s Law reverses course, and Meta quietly abandons the metaverse.
Not Another New Year Prediction
From the ruins of the "blockchain-ready" panic to the new AI FOMO trap, plus the vital difference between owning a crystal ball and building actual…
Outsourcing Your Own Brain
While Instagram declares the polished feed dead, Stack Overflow collapses in freefall, and Claude 4.5 starts demanding human dignity.
Winning Is A Vanity Metric
Why Spotify is optimizing for zero-success experiments, the reason most innovation teams get fired, and the 2026 blueprint for outlearning the market
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