AI systems have become extraordinarily good at producing outputs that look like thinking. This has led us to confuse the performance of intelligence with intelligence itself — a confusion with real consequences.
We are the most connected generation in human history. We are also the loneliest. These two facts are not in tension — they are the same fact.
The language of optimization has escaped its technical origins and colonized the way we think about time, attention, relationships, and the self. What we have lost in the translation is the idea that some things should not be made more efficient.
The anecdotal evidence is becoming data. The indicators that the AI jobs disruption is accelerating — and what they suggest about the next eighteen months.
Outrage is algorithmically optimized. Nuance is penalized. The platforms that organize public discourse have created an information environment that democracy was not designed to survive.
The ideology of American technology has always been a religion. What's changed is that its priests now hold political power — and they're starting to act like it.
AI image generation has disrupted the economic and aesthetic foundations of visual art. The philosophical questions it raises have not been resolved — and probably cannot be.
We predicted the internet would bring democracy, abundance, and connection. It brought all three and also their opposites. Understanding what we got wrong helps explain what comes next.