Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Drew Austin perfectly describes how and why nothing ends:
“Closure is a thing of the past. One of the emergent qualities of the digital culture millennials shaped is that nothing ends any more. Wars and pandemics drag on; aging bands keep touring in a perpetual state of reunion rather than breaking up; politicians circle the drain into their eightie... See more
Death Is Our Missing Technology
He welcomed the app’s autonomy, how he didn’t have to curate a single thought of his own. Opinions and hot takes were fed to him without discretion, airplaned into his brain like a warm spoon to a toddler’s mouth.
Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI are all leaning into an ambient, multimodal future:
- Spatial Computing: Apple’s Vision Pro is just the start — digital information woven into the physical environment.
- Voice & Gesture: Interfaces are moving beyond glass screens to talk, glance, and movement.
- Proactive Agents: Systems that act without waiting for a typed qu
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
The companies thinking furthest ahead are already prototyping for this world:
- Commerce will be conversational, not navigational.
- Brand interactions will be proactive, not reactive.
- The frontline of loyalty will be invisible.
In the ambient future, brands will compete not for screen real estate, but for mental bandwidth and emotional resonance.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
If NOW is about new interfaces and NEXT is about composable systems and cultural rewiring, then FUTURE is about the deep shifts that will redefine how humans interact with technology itself.
In closed rooms across Silicon Valley, there was a clear signal:
In closed rooms across Silicon Valley, there was a clear signal:
We’re moving from gadgets in our hands... to intelligence all around us.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
learning is not an afterthought. It’s infrastructure.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
The Apple principle: “Don’t ship novelty. Ship significance.”
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
The future of AI isn’t monolithic. It’s modular, dynamic, and orchestrated like a symphony.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
One of the clearest signals from Nvidia, OpenAI, and even smaller startups was the rise of the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture.
Instead of a single, giant LLM handling every task, MoE uses small, specialised models — each tuned for a specific domain (e.g. financial language, retail SKU logic, creative copywriting).
It’s cheaper: Not every query hits a massive model, reducing compute costs.
It’s faster: Only relevant experts “activate,” improving speed.
It’s more precise: Specialists outperform generalists in nuanced tasks.
It’s not either/or. It’s:
Because while plug-and-play power is seductive, strategic sovereignty is priceless.
Don’t run headfirst into an enterprise solution and shackle your company’s goldmine—your data, your insights, your competitive advantage—to a big provider who wi... See more
Closed models → fast experimentation
Proprietary models → scalable differentiation
Because while plug-and-play power is seductive, strategic sovereignty is priceless.
Don’t run headfirst into an enterprise solution and shackle your company’s goldmine—your data, your insights, your competitive advantage—to a big provider who wi... See more