I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Will the concept of a “vacation” as we know it, packing bags, booking flights, standing in immigration lines, still exist in 20 or 30 years? Or will we simply slide on an…
I was in Athens recently, climbing the steps up to the Acropolis with a human guide walking me through the history of the Parthenon. He was good. But somewhere on those steps it hit me: I don’t need him. I…
The loneliness epidemic in America is real, and most people aren’t talking about it honestly. Fewer people are getting married. Divorce rates have reshaped entire generations. And the fear I hear most often when talking to people, especially in the…
Most organizational laptops have Consumer Copilot and one of the two M365 Copilot variants deployed on them. And most employees can’t tell the three apart. That’s a problem. If an employee has to think about which Copilot they should use,…
There’s a lot of Microsoft hate going around right now, and I get where some of it comes from. Copilot has been clumsy. Microsoft jammed it into places it had no business being, like Notepad and Paint, long before it…
Most people think the AI era is going to reward engineers and data scientists. I’d argue the opposite is becoming true. The people who are going to thrive are the ones who can think clearly and express themselves precisely. Not…
When a Waymo car gets into an accident, the whole fleet goes on trial. Every self-driving car is suddenly suspect. Every algorithm gets questioned. The incident becomes a referendum on whether autonomous vehicles should exist at all. When a human…
Thanks to AirPods and other earbuds, we can’t tell anymore if someone is talking to themselves, talking to us or having a conversation on the phone with someone using one earbud which is on the other side of their face…
10 years after the movie Her was released (2013) in which a guy named Theodore falls in love with his AI Samantha voiced by Scarlett Johansson, I’m seeing the beginning of this era where we’re going to be interacting with…
I’m writing this in April 2023. ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since November 2022. People are fascinated by the capabilities of artificial intelligence. So many people around the globe are just playing around with the technology. Everyone has…