The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration

I think the most interesting thing about space is that most of us are looking at it the wrong way. Yeap. For as long as I can remember, space has occupied a special place in my imagination. Not because I was an expert. I wasn’t. But like millions of people, I was fascinated by the same enduring questions: stars, distant planets, the possibility of alien … Continue reading The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration

The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

What is Art?

When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?

When AI Becomes Insurable…

… It Stops Being Magic and Starts Being Power It reads like a minor corporate update, the kind of post that floats through LinkedIn and disappears by lunch. ElevenLabs announces that its AI voice agents can now be insured. A certification, AIUC-1, validates safety, reliability, and security. Five thousand adversarial simulations. Enterprise readiness. Faster deployment. The language is procedural, almost dull. And yet, this is … Continue reading When AI Becomes Insurable…

Reid, You’re Right:…

… AI Won’t Need Bank Accounts—Because It’s Rewriting the Economy Itself There is a quiet assumption embedded in the architecture of the internet: that somewhere behind every transaction, there is a human deciding. That assumption is starting to break. In your recent piece, “Should we give AI a bank account?”, Reid Hoffman you don’t just suggest a shift—you outline a rupture, not software getting better … Continue reading Reid, You’re Right:…