Democracy needs a healthy internet. We don’t have one.
Here’s a story about how democracy, our very way of organizing our society and our lives, is under existential threat — because our public information sphere, our media environment,…
Tag: tech
What will AI mean for executives?
What will AI mean for executives? Will AI overturn corporate structures? Will it require new skills from executives? Spoiler alert: I don’t expect dramatic changes — I’ll lay…
It’s time to re-frame Tech & Society as a field
Here’s a hypothesis I’ve been mulling over as I’ve been absorbing the news these last few weeks and months: It’s time to re-frame Tech & Society as a…
Moving up the stack & different generational outlooks
Here’s a mental model I carry around with me and pull out whenever I think about different approaches to thinking about tech: Different generations think differently about tech…
AI’s real Alignment Issue
AI has an alignment issue, but it’s not what you think. Alignment is famously tricky with AI, and one of the things most talked about among AI critics…
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…
Refractive Fragmentation — where did social media go?
“An X never, ever marks the spot,” Indiana Jones once famously stated. Only in this one particular case, it totally does: When Twitter became X, it very much…