We are entering a new age of knowledge work: the Remote Era. In a McLuhan sense, the medium of office work has changed. Up until now, everybody thought…
Enterprise software design is converging on the patterns of game design because work is now fully virtual and game interfaces are the language of the…
Back when you still needed to convince people to buy a computer, Steve Jobs loved to say Apple made “bicycles for the mind”, amplifying our output to…
The metaverse is at once a “lazy rebranding of the same old social networks”, and yet also an “attempt to enslave humanity”. This is a familiar place…
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
Computer, call me a taxi.
As big tech buys up first media and now gaming, we might reasonably ask, is there any sector they won’t eventually consume? It can seem as if Google…
Many people are saying that the culture has entered a post-literate phase. “Post-literate” is supposed to mean that people no longer read books…
‘That was our old religion, Master Harker,’ Cole said, nodding towards it. ‘It was nothing like so good as the new, of course, but it was good fun in…
I spoke to David Wighton at The Times about Gamification of Work, who quoted me as a “fan” of gamification: Yet the impact of the pandemic on the future…
I find reaching for my phone, opening Twitter and scrolling to be a hugely compelling activity. The thrill is something like a soap opera, reading…
Some values may benefit small groups such as startups, without necessarily being good for people’s everyday lives or even society as a whole. For…