“The greatest innovation in corporate communications isn’t creating new technology, but finding new ways to describe firing people without mentioning the robots that will replace them.” – Anonymous tech executive overheard at a closed-door fintech conference. In what industry observers are calling “the most semantically innovative workforce reduction of 2025,” Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced […]
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“The revolution will not be televised,” proclaimed Gil Scott-Heron in his seminal 1970 poem. Half a century later, the revolution won’t need television—because it will be fully automated, optimized, and executed without human intervention or witnesses. It will simply send you a calendar invite titled “Your Obsolescence: Accept?” In a gleaming corporate campus outside Seattle, […]