Going Back to Facebook…

…unwantedly It started like digital time travel. After five or six years off Facebook, I found myself logging back in, not out of nostalgia but because work required it. I opened a new account, thinking I could keep things clean and separate, but platforms have long memories. Or maybe they are memory. Before long, Meta had stitched everything back together, collapsing the distance I thought … Continue reading Going Back to Facebook…

Lost In Translation?

Long before algorithms ruled markets or models predicted our next move, we had something else just as powerful: language. It shaped civilizations. It built religions, resolved wars, and launched scientific revolutions. And now, in 2025, it has taken on a new role. It’s not just communication. It’s command. We’ve crossed a threshold where words are not only expressive; they’re operational. You can literally talk to … Continue reading Lost In Translation?

Video killed the Radio Star

Video Renaissance

It feels like one of those moments when you hear “video killed the radio star”. Except this time, no radio died. Video was reborn. In the span of days, two launches reshaped what video even means. Synthesia 3.0 unveiled video agents, lifelike avatars, AI copilots, and interactive courses—video not as a clip but as a system. Then Sam Altman announced Sora 2, describing it as … Continue reading Video Renaissance

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5