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Technology & Change: Field Notes From The Present Future
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What’s Half of Nothing?
Camera reviews are not only pointless, but are also kind of rigged. And there is no better testimonial for this camera hype machine than the “review” of Fuji X half...
OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal
My phone has been pinging non-stop since yesterday. Everyone wants to know the backstory of the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley history: Sam Altman’s OpenAI buying Jony Ive’s io Products...
Why did OpenAI buy Jony Ive & Co
OpenAI, made the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley’s history. Sam Altman and his crew bought Jony Ive and his coterie of ex-Apple hotshots for a whopping $6.5 billion. It is...
The Method of the Monster
Meet the Monster: a fountain pen so ambitious that it holds enough ink to write a short novel. The pen is a symbiosis of precision engineering, material science, and bold...
Our Dopamine Curse
I think dopamine hits from buying or anticipating the next pen or stationary is a symptom of the world we live in where things are easily available and we are...
The Real Cost of Chinese Open-Source AI
Don’t believe the Chinese AI open-source hype, warns good friend, Pete Warden. Their large language models come at a price — the models are programmed to deliberately obscure historical truths, ...
How iPhone has evolved as a Camera
Given how much I have been using my iPhone as my everyday camera, I decided to put together this blog post to show how far Apple’s smartphone camera technology has...
What an Unusual Week
It has been a week, that at best can be described as deliciously weird. I have neither been inspired to write, nor to indulge my passion for photography. Apart from...
Satellites, Fixed Wireless Reshape Global Broadband Landscape”
A new report by research firm Point Topic says there were more than 1.5 billion global broadband subscribers at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024. The real story,...
R.I.P. Skype!
On May 5, Microsoft retired Skype, the startup that sparked a communication revolution. I won’t repeat myself, as I’ve already published a postmortem analyzing Skype’s decline under Microsoft’s 14-year ownership...
Antidote to modern times
Perhaps this is the antidote to our modern times!
No Gruber, this is why Facebook renamed itself
John Gruber: I’m so old I remember when Facebook renamed itself Meta because the “metaverse” was supposedly the future of the company and, so said Mark Zuckerberg, the future of...
What ChatGPT Saw in My Handwriting
“A good fountain pen makes you want to write,” some pen enthusiasts say, but a “great one makes you need to.” As a fountain pen lover and someone who has...
The Silent Collapse of Photo Licensing
Kaptur writes: Particularly in marketing, where demand for fast, customized visuals is high, 39% of marketers use AI to create social media visuals, and 36% to generate website imagery. The...
A torpedo “bat” of innovation?
A “bat” isn’t always just a bat. Sometimes it’s a perfect alchemy of data, science, and ingenuity. The “Torpedo” bat, which is making waves in Major League Baseball, serves as...
The Mediocrity of Modern Google
These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma...
When AI Whispers in Ink
As one month ends and another begins, I find myself performing what has become a private ritual with two pens from my unusually large collection of fountain pens. These are...
Bijan on the blog again
Bijan Sabet is one of the people in our industry I admire ardently. His work ethic, moral conviction, and understanding of himself have made him a joy. We served together...
Has Search Become Just a Feature?
You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses. With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its...
Goodbye Torque. Hello TeraFLOPS!
In this week’s edition of CrazyStupidTech, I wrote about how Chinese domination of “electric vehicles” is going to become a nightmare, not just for car companies, but also for Silicon...