Somewhere in the world on St Patrick’s Day, a man used an AI agent just called 3,000 Irish pubs and asked each one the price of a pint of Guinness. Now the pubs are lowering their prices to compete. It did this in the time it takes you to read that sentence. Nobody hired it. … Read more
TL;DR AI didn’t fail. The story we were sold did. We were promised a world where intelligence becomes cheap, abundant, and universal—where AI sits in front of us, ready to serve. But every product that forced humans to interact with AI directly has quietly failed. Because humans don’t want intelligence.They want outcomes. The future of … Read more
“That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over!”— Private Hudson, Aliens, 1986 The lights are flickering. Not the romantic flicker of a candle — the kind that makes a dinner table feel intimate and warm. The violent, industrial flicker of overhead strip lighting that has taken a massive hit. Corporate fluorescent tubes in a corporate … Read more
Once upon a time — specifically, in the first quarter of 2026, in a kingdom called Silicon Valley where the streets were paved not with gold but with something considerably more volatile — there lived a Tech Emperor, whose name, must-not-be-named. The Tech Emperor, You-Know-Who, was, by any measure, extraordinary. He had built electric carriages … Read more
In the Beginning, There Was Enough The light in Eden arrives before the sun does. It always does. It seeps through the canopy in long, amber columns, warm as breath, and the garden warmly receives it the way a sleeping face receives the morning light — without gratitude, because it has never known the alternative. … Read more
There is a scene from one my favourite animations of all time ‘Toy Story’ — if you watched the film, you know it without being told — where the moment the Andy leaves the room, the toys come alive. They walk, they argue, they have entire political crises involving a plastic dinosaur and a one-eyed … Read more