Collaborate Disseminate
Google Assistant can now make phone calls, but the people answering the phones at small businesses can’t yet form a relationship with an AI agent. Continue reading Google Duplex Puts AI Into a Social Uncanny Valley
If tech is going to infiltrate, influence, and shape all of society, it is unacceptable for tech and pure market forces to decide the limits of the surveillance state. Continue reading There Are No Guardrails on Our Privacy Dystopia
Masterful cyberpunk or boring slog? A debate. Continue reading Is ‘Blade Runner: 2049’ GOOD or BAD?
The final installment of our serialized graphic novel, the Highwayman. Continue reading End of the Road
My phone can now understand me but it’s still an idiot when it comes to understanding what I want. We have both the hardware capacity and the software capacity to solve this right now. What we lack is the social capacity.
We are currently in a dumb state of personal automation. I have Google Now enabled on my phone. Every single month Google Now reminds me of bills coming due that I have already paid. It doesn’t see me pay them, it just sees the email I received and the due date. A creature of habit, I pay my bills …read more
The 30-year-old movie saw Schwarzenegger facing off against a reality show host…sound familiar? Continue reading The Trump-Schwarzenegger Feud Shows How ‘The Running Man’ Predicted 2017
Brazil is our future and our future is terrifying. Continue reading Netflix’s ‘3%’ Turns the Google Job Interview into a Dystopian Nightmare
The Empire’s probe droids are one step closer to reality. Continue reading You Can’t Hide From This 1000 Watt LED Drone
Hell comes to the future of Burning Man. Part 3 of the Highwayman. Continue reading Disruption
We’re all gonna die, but here’s how to die less soon. Continue reading Two Strategies to Surviving the Coming Mass Extinction
