Bostjan examines how AI and imagination can transform humanity’s connection to the Earth and the futures we aspire to create.
There is something ancient in the way we distrust hidden motives. Long before we had language for manipulation or propaganda, we could sense when someone…
One hundred days ago I started a blogging experiment. For the first sixty I wrote almost daily. For the last forty I wrote nothing. This…
Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants tells the same story on repeat across two hundred years: a new medium emerges, finds a pocket of human time that nobody…
Six weeks. That’s how long it took OpenAI’s nascent ad business to cross $100 million in annualised revenue after launching inside ChatGPT. The entry price:…
There is something ancient in the way we distrust hidden motives. Long before we had language for manipulation or propaganda, we could sense when someone wanted something from us that they weren’t willing to name. This instinct hasn’t gone anywhere. If anything, it has migrated — and today, it quietly shapes how many of us…
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One hundred days ago I started a blogging experiment. For the first sixty I wrote almost daily. For the last forty I wrote nothing. This is also ten years since I last wrote anything at all, so the sample is contaminated by every possible variable. Here’s what I think I learned anyway. The Distribution Reality…
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Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants tells the same story on repeat across two hundred years: a new medium emerges, finds a pocket of human time that nobody had thought to monetize yet, and sells it to advertisers. Newspapers colonized the morning. Radio took the commute. Television claimed the evening. The internet got the office hours. Social media…
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Six weeks. That’s how long it took OpenAI’s nascent ad business to cross $100 million in annualised revenue after launching inside ChatGPT. The entry price: $60 CPM, with a $200,000 minimum buy. Higher than most premium display inventory. Higher than YouTube. Priced, in other words, like a statement. Whether that statement holds is the most…
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A Singapore regulator just asked who’s responsible when your AI agent does something wrong. The answer is obvious: you are. You sent it, you own it. “The AI did it” will hold up in court about as well as “my assistant did it.” But the interesting question isn’t about liability. It’s about what happens the…
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You’ve uploaded your passport to a bank. You’ve taken a selfie holding your ID. You’ve answered questions about your grandmother’s maiden name at 11pm because some algorithm flagged your login as suspicious. This is KYC. Know Your Customer. It’s the financial world’s way of making sure that before money moves, identities are verified. It’s annoying,…
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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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