Latest Essays
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From Blogging to AI: This is the future of media
Fable Studio, a San Francisco-based startup that gained fame for demonstrating the ability to create an episode of South Park with a brief prompt, is making headlines again. The company is launching Showrunner, a streaming platform that will enable users to create their own AI-prompted episodes of various shows. “The vision is to be…
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AI Hardware is experimental & it’s okay!
Tech’s past tells us that the future doesn’t unfold along a predetermined timeline. Despite the rocky starts of Humane’s AI Pin & Rabbit’s R1 device, we’re heading to a promising era where invisible information interfaces become as commonplace as screens.
Latest Podcast
The GeoPolitical Implications of A.I. – a chat with Sean Gourley – Stuck @Om
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The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) and its wide-ranging impact is inescapable. But beyond industry disruption, what significant effects does this groundbreaking technology hold…
Latest Backpages
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NewWhat’s Friendship
Sometimes, when you read something so perfect, you have to savor it, share it, and save it! ….what could be easier than friendship? In theory, nothing. It is a relationship that consists almost entirely in shared history, loyalty, and an ongoing pleasure in each other’s company. Friendship asks only that you be yourself. In philosophical …
Latest Photography
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Subtle Magic of San Francisco.
San Francisco remains a beautiful city, no matter what you read in the papers — or more likely, on social media. It is blessed by a unique location and geography that allows you to experience 58 F (14 C) in one half of the city and 72 F (22 C) in another. Our regional weather pattern gives us the joy of fog, pretty much all year round. So much so that we have …