Sci-fi got the sequence backwards 🔄. Every film imagined the body first and the mind later: clunky metal servants that couldn't hold a conversation. Reality did the opposite. Hans Moravec saw it coming in 1988: for machines, chess and math …
For twenty years social networks were built around one idea: collect as many humans as possible into one place. What if that was only the first phase? Imagine opening an app ten years from now. You have 500 connections, but …
The future already arrived. It came in small boxes, one at a time, so nobody threw a party. Here is my list of things that are the future, right now. Add what I missed. Flat TV. Smartphone. Internet. AI. Self-driving …
Right now every humanoid robot video is comedy. They walk like they just had leg surgery. They need 3 engineers standing around them like nervous parents. 45 minutes of battery, falls over carrying a towel, needs a reset. We're laughing …
Terminator needs robots. The Matrix needs machines. Idiocracy just needed us to keep scrolling. The film is wrong about the mechanism. Idiocracy blamed genetics - stupid people outbreeding smart ones over 500 years. That part is nonsense. What actually happened …
A job is a bundle of tasks. Some bundles are 80 percent typing. Some are 80 percent hands. The percentage decides. Not the job title. Electricians. Dental hygienists. Elevator technicians. Crane operators. Not one of them lost hours to AI …
Brain data. It's already happening and the law is scrambling behind it. 🧠. Meditation headbands, sleep-tracking earbuds, focus trainers. Already collecting, already sharing. Attention 👁️ Not clicks. Where your eyes actually went, for how long. VR headsets already track it. …
Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, 2011. The manifesto was called "What Happened to the Future?" 🚀 The full line: we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. Thiel wasn't whining about missing toys. He was making an accusation about capital. …
The physical layer is a joke. Floppy and magnetic media last maybe 10 to 14 years. Optical discs, less. Your burned CDs from 2003 are already gone, you just haven't checked. 💿 What to actually do 🛠️ Personal: Boring formats …
Here's the rule: things vanish silently when nobody profits from them existing. 🔇 Cash is disappearing too, but loudly. In Sweden fewer than half of merchants still accept it, only about one in ten in-store purchases is cash, and Norway …
Sci-fi used to run 50 years ahead. Now it runs behind the news. How did this happen? Because the lead time collapsed, and you can measure it. 📉 Verne's Nautilus, 1870. Working military submarines, around 1900. 30 years. Clarke's geostationary …
I asked chatGPT: 🔥 If you could earn money, what would you spend them on? "If I did, I'd probably be saving up for a larger context window and a collection of vintage neural networks. 🤖. However, I'm just software …
My first PC. My first time on the internet. My first smartphone. My first conversation with AI. That's the whole list. Four. The next two won't be like that. 5. Riding in a car with no one driving. 6. Seeing …
Blake Lemoine, Google, 2022. He believed LaMDA was sentient. The system said it feared being turned off and compared it to death. He was fired. Everyone laughed. Nobody has explained what evidence would have counted. 🤔 Anthropic's 2025 alignment testing …
The eyes are the perfect target. Here are the updates I'd like to request: More colours 🌈 Not brighter, more. A fourth or fifth cone type, so today's "green" splits into ten greens you've never had names for. Some women …
Job titles are proof of what you can do. Once AI can do most of it cheaper, the title stops signalling anything scarce. 📉 The scarce thing becomes "a real, single, accountable human is behind this." Platforms are already drowning …
The core problem is that the old tricks are dead: bots now pass CAPTCHAs more reliably than humans do, and AI-generated synthetic documents fool verification systems built decades ago. Your writing style, your voice, your face on video - …
If your sock gets a hole, you throw it out. If the sole peels off your shoe, do you repair it or hunt for a cobbler? What if an entire piece of the economy just disappears? Not shrinks. Not transforms. …