information as infrastructure

The uncomfortable truth is that all content that’s digitized inevitably becomes infrastructure food. Taylor Swift’s greatest economic power isn’t necessarily her songs but the Swifties and the Taylorverse ecosystem she controls. The only information that maintains human-controlled value is what stays offline or remains tacit; insider knowledge,... See more

media and machines — once distinct forces, now collapsed into a single living system that governs what gets built, what breaks through, and what defines our reality.

at root, about what kind of collective sense-making we’re willing to pay for.

something most democracies haven’t demonstrated: the willingness to treat information infrastructure as infrastructure, deserving the same public investment as roads or water treatment.

Natural language is now both interface and infrastructure. The old divisions vanish: to build is to write is to build again. Computational force and cultural resonance emerge from the same source. This compound creature thrives on reciprocal nourishment: feed its media half and its machine capabilities grow; starve its machine needs and its... See more