Incremental Changes

Incremental Changes

Facebook’s homepage didn’t always look like that. Once upon a time, 20-plus years ago, it was called TheFacebook—and it was only for Harvard students. Things have changed. But not overnight. The changes were almost always gradual ones. Retooling the...
The Future He Never Promised

The Future He Never Promised

This isn’t promised, I think to myself as I wrap my arms around my wife, drifting off to sleep at the end of a long day. Not this moment. Not the next. We are still, barely motionless except for the breaths moving slowly, methodically, in and out of our lungs....
And the word of the year is “slop”

And the word of the year is “slop”

I don’t know where AI is heading. I don’t know what it’s going to be capable of in five years. I don’t know what it’s going to be capable of in five months. I don’t think anyone does, no matter how confident they sound. But I do see...
Everything, All the Time

Everything, All the Time

We were not made to be connected to everything all the time. We were not made to have unfettered, infinite access to every communal thought and scrap of knowledge the human race has aggregated throughout its existence. We were not made to process unending streams of...