Quick takeaways from Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World
I’ve been reading Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World, and while I cannot get myself to quite share her optimism, I highly recommend the book. For…
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4 Steps Towards a Better Internet
I believe the internet today is pretty much broken — by behavioral tracking, by market concentration, by walled gardens. And while I caution against quick technological fixes as attempts…
re:publica is a wrap
This week I attended re:publica, Germany’s most relevant tech & society conference. I’ve been going since year 1 (2007) — not every year, and often not for the…
Some thoughts after Mercator Forum
I’m on my way back home from Essen where I attended Mercator Forum, the foundation’s annual convening of its stakeholders, communities and grantee partners. This year it was…
Things don’t look too rosy for AI right now
A few things about the state of AI 2024 that taken together paint a less-than-rosy picture: (1) Ed Zitron makes a case — a pretty compelling one — that…
On the Buxton Index
How far into the future do you plan? There doesn’t seem to be a primary source for this other than a 1994 transcript of a lecture by Dutch…
Consider the Budget Airline Deployment (B.A.D.)
Tech is a sector that’s full of hype, and of utopian promises. Social media will revive democracy! AI will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis! Some of…