Bostjan examines how AI and imagination can transform humanity’s connection to the Earth and the futures we aspire to create.
For nearly 45 years, if you said “AI,” you were talking about Expert Systems. Before we had neural networks that “learned,” we had systems that “followed.” From…
Twenty years ago, a saying made the rounds in the scientific community: “It is only Artificial Intelligence until we understand how it works; then it becomes…
This decade is deeply, fundamentally uncanny. We began with a global pandemic, moved immediately into the algorithmic rewriting of civilization via AI, and are now…
The reports are no longer just trickling in; they are a steady stream. Thousands of roles at tech titans like Oracle, Microsoft, and Google are…
For nearly 45 years, if you said “AI,” you were talking about Expert Systems. Before we had neural networks that “learned,” we had systems that “followed.” From the 1970s through the mid-2010s, expert systems were the gold standard for high-stakes computing. They guided Space Shuttle landings and helped CEOs make multi-million dollar decisions. Today? You mostly encounter…
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Twenty years ago, a saying made the rounds in the scientific community: “It is only Artificial Intelligence until we understand how it works; then it becomes ‘Machine Learning.’” Most people don’t care about the semantic gymnastics, and to be fair, the terms overlap significantly. But let’s be a bit pedantic for three minutes to clarify what…
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This decade is deeply, fundamentally uncanny. We began with a global pandemic, moved immediately into the algorithmic rewriting of civilization via AI, and are now watching geopolitics tilt toward a breaking point. Historians often use the concept of the “Short 20th Century,” arguing that the “real” 20th century only truly existed between 1914 and 1991. Before that…
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The reports are no longer just trickling in; they are a steady stream. Thousands of roles at tech titans like Oracle, Microsoft, and Google are being pruned. While the official narrative often points to “restructuring,” there is a deeper, more mechanical shift happening under the hood. The Roadmap to Redundancy Anthropic recently published a sobering…
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I’ve been a startup CEO and product guy for ten years. When we started, we were firmly in the “future of the web” sci-fi realm—navigating the messy intersection of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (before everyone rebranded it as Web3). We eventually pivoted into ad-tech and carved out a win. This is a fictionalized…
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I realized recently that I’ve been buzzing on about “agents” and “standards” without explicitly mentioning the most important technical innovation sitting underneath it all: MCP.
By now, the acronym has likely crossed your radar, but how many of us have actually looked under the hood?
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Humanoid robots are moving from science fiction to the sidewalk. After years of seeing them in lab demos, we are finally meeting them in person—at public exhibitions across Europe and in viral clips from the “Robotic Olympics.” But as they step out of the lab, a certain unease is following them. There is something inherently…
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A decade ago, as Web 2.0 matured, a common industry trope emerged: half the internet is just bots crawling the other half. Modern AI hasn’t just validated that trope; it has weaponized it. While official reports suggest LLM crawlers account for roughly 10% of average site traffic, that figure is a floor, not a ceiling.…
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The conversation surrounding AI is dominated by one looming fear: the displacement of the human worker. It’s a familiar anxiety. The First Industrial Revolution was a chaotic reshuffling of sectors that—despite the “growing pains” of two world wars—eventually left humanity better off. However, the most lasting legacy of that era wasn’t just the machinery; it…
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In three years, the “user” on the other side of a Google search or a marketplace query won’t be a human with a 3-second attention span. It will be an agent with a $0.05 budget and a list of requirements. We are entering the era of the 10:1 Ratio: for every human online, ten agents will…
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We’ve tackled several technically dense concepts over the past few Fridays, but today we’re going for the Holy Grail. We’re going to explain—in plain English—what this magical technology actually is and how it works. The catch? No math. No biology. No computer science. So much for managing expectations. It’s a tall order because artificial neural networks…
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After 20 years in product, I know a “naive” timeline when I see one. Or at least, I used to. This week, I sat through a pre-sales pitch where the team promised a transition from a managed service to a full API in seven days, followed by a self-managed platform in a month. Old me: “Impossible.…
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