The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions

The rise of immersive experiences will mainstream 3D creation.

AI is changing content marketing, and content marketers need to change with it. The smart move is to accept that AI-powered augmentation, automation, and disruption are inevitable. That means machines can—and will—take over some content tasks historically performed by humans. As this happens, brands will increasingly place value on humans who can d

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Where and how will humans show the eminence of our species when AI becomes better than us at everything? I feel sort of desperate for some human-centric optimism here because the whole project of being human feels really weird as our specialness becomes automated.  

A couple of observations. First, I do think the last mile is the most difficu

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• The future of internet media is less, but better.  Time and attention are precious, finite resources. How we spend them determines the quality of our lives. We believe media practitioners have a responsibility to treat time and attention as sacred, refusing to churn out commoditized filler content or algorithmic bait, and instead only ask for

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As every big company floods the zone of our attention with increasingly enticing marketing and cheaper and more personalized versions of everything, we — as consumers — will crave more scarce and authentically human experiences, often provided by a small business run by passionate people. In response, more artisanal-like and privately-owned busines... See more