AI in 2025

We can keep reaching for metaphors of the past - tools, assistants, minds, intelligences - and keep getting the politics they encode.

Or we can choose terms that encode the politics we want: human agency, collective benefit, individual sovereignty, honest assessment of what this is and isn’t.

Fork. Construct. Ansible. Daemon. Symbiont. Cognitive... See more

“Answer engines” like ChatGPT, Perplexity and increasingly Google lure readers into comfy, closed ecosystems where they rarely click to news sites for full articles. The big social platforms, including Meta and X, systematically demote links to news publishers. Users are by and large okay with that change, because they’ve soured on news, as well:... See more

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:

We’re moving from gadgets in our hands... to intelligence all around us.

Our current terminology clusters into two failing camps, and both serve interests that aren’t ours.

The diminishing frame - tool, assistant, software, program, bot - licenses cognitive outsourcing without accountability. It creates regulatory blindspots because you can’t harm a tool, you have no obligations to a tool. It permits surveillance under... See more

We cannot become more disembodied in an age of technological expansion. In fact, we must become more embodied. Here, we leverage all the modalities of movement that allow us to connect with the core of our being. We also harness our social and emotional wellbeing by becoming more astute at processing how we feel and how others feel.

The key thing to take away from this is that the real expertise here isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing how to guide the work. How to evaluate the work. It’s knowing what is worth prompting — which is really just another way of saying: knowing what’s worth doing.

I saw someone define modern art as:

Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you... See more

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 query

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