The plumbing of progress is always invisible until it becomes indispensable. When telegraph cables first crossed the Atlantic, they seemed like curiosities. Within a decade, no ship’s captain could afford to leave port without consulting the latest wire from London. The Suez […]
Here’s the thing about breakthrough technologies: they don’t announce themselves with fanfare. They creep up on us, quietly building momentum until suddenly they’re everywhere. Take artificial intelligence. For years, it was just something computer scientists talked about at conferences. Then ChatGPT came […]
There’s an old saying in the semiconductor world: chips are the new oil. That metaphor, like most good ones, has limits. Oil runs downhill. Chips run on demand. And sometimes, as in the case of Samsung’s stunning recent slump, the demand disappears […]
Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude offer powerful capabilities, but long-form creative work remains a persistent failure point. Projects that begin with clarity and style often degrade into generic, fragmented output. What begins as collaboration turns into cleanup. Two terms […]
For years, autonomous vehicles have been framed as a distant technological frontier, an abstract promise of convenience, safety, and efficiency. But in Austin, Texas, that future quietly arrived. And with it, a critical public policy question emerged: how do we ensure that […]
The most consequential choices we make about technology often unfold quietly. Not in government hearings or viral headlines, but at the checkout counter, inside IT departments, or during a conversation with the person who configures your next computer. Today, the story of […]
It starts the same way every time. You open a browser to check the weather, and seventeen clicks later you’re accepting cookies from a Croatian fishing blog, muting a video about luxury bathtubs, and trying to close an ad that has cleverly […]
Some of the smartest people I know are working three jobs, and none of them are full time. A startup CEO I met last month described his team this way: a fractional CFO from Chicago, a part-time brand strategist in Portugal, a […]
In 2024, a junior associate at a boutique law firm in Chicago began training a GPT model to write like his managing partner. There was no directive. No job title. No formal training. Just curiosity and a backlog of contracts to draft. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Google in October 2020. That legal challenge could reshape how small businesses operate in the digital economy. This is not some arcane policy fight. It is about the tools businesses use […]