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The Great Compression: AI & Cybersecurity
There used to be a pause in the rhythm of digital security. A software bug was found; the vendor created and tested and released a patch; and businesses had a comfortable few weeks to install it before hackers figured out how to use the flaw. In between there was…
Ace Doubles: Two Tales, One Spine
Philip K Dick’s first published novel was Solar Lottery in 1955. It was a thirty five cent Ace paperback. If you flip the book over, there’s no back cover, there’s a different…
Details Mattter: The Difference Between AI Hallucinations And Misinformation
Details matter. Here’s a detail about AI that matters: there’s a difference between hallucinations and misinformation. Seems subtle, I know, but the distinction might help…
Brown Stage Capitalism
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification . Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why…
AI & Society: Messy, Complicated, And Uneven
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: Governance Alternatives
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure…
AI & Society: The Failure Of Federal Governance
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: The Case For Pessimism
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: The Case For Optimism
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI’s Impact On Society
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
Console Cowboys & Cyberspace: The Enduring Legacy Of Neuromancer
The most valuable book in my collection is a copy of Neuromancer published in 1986 by Phantasia Press. Only 375 numbered copies were signed by the author, bound with gold…
NotebookLM: Newly Magical And Actually Useful
NotebookLM is the most interesting consumer AI product currently available, period, full stop. Don’t look away. This is not just for nerds. NotebookLM is also potentially the…
Libby, Libraries, And The Shocking Cost Of Ebook Licenses
You can read almost any book in print for free, new or old, using an app named Libby . It’s legal! In fact, it’s encouraged. Maybe I’m not telling you anything new. Lots of…
Emus And Piracy: The Story Behind The Lord Of The Rings
The painting on the cover of the first US paperback edition of The Hobbit has a lion, a fruit tree, and a pair of emus. There are no lions in The Hobbit. There are no fruit trees…
More Than Half Of All Internet Traffic Is Not Human
Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and…
AI And The Future Of The Internet
The internet is splintering into pieces. This will seem like an unhappy story because I have to explain what’s happening and why and it’s kind of sad. But there’s a happy ending!…