INTRODUCTION TO MUTANT TETRADS
set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:
- All technological change is a trade-off.
- The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the
Postman’s Prophetic Provocations
The storytelling meme is evocative because on one hand it makes perfect sense that companies would want to be able to explain what they’re doing and make an offering in a compelling and entertaining way that resonates with people, which is storytelling. Yet it also speaks to a type of froth and rot in an overly fanciful society where we tell... See more
NEMESIS • INTRODUCTION TO MUTANT TETRADS
A New Medium
August 2025
The more I meet people who've gone deep into generating AI media, the more I realize we're all reaching the same conclusion: this is a new medium. Not an evolution of something else. Something entirely new, the way photography and film were new.
To understand any medium, you need to look beyond its surface to its core. Some... See more
August 2025
The more I meet people who've gone deep into generating AI media, the more I realize we're all reaching the same conclusion: this is a new medium. Not an evolution of something else. Something entirely new, the way photography and film were new.
To understand any medium, you need to look beyond its surface to its core. Some... See more