Severin Matusek

André has the excitement of someone who is traversing new ground, but he’s also serious about the work.

This is a chance to bring warmth and fun into an increasingly lonely and isolated world.

Every once in a while I think about the insanity of HBR asking Seinfeld if McKinsey could have made him more efficient

All these points in AI’s favor prompt some nervous reappraisals. Essays that began in bafflement or dismay wind up convinced that the technology marks an epochal shift in reading and writing.

Last month, trailblazing Chinese rapper Jackzebra told Dazed that China’s youth “don’t fuck with techno anymore” and are instead gravitating towards the “freedom and chaos” of hardstyle and hyperpop.

Stories by Stephenson – which tend, predictably, towards singular heroes who win at technocracy – form the inspiration behind Amazon’s Blue Origin and Facebook’s Metaverse.

And AI’s semivisible, infrastructural role in exploiting precarious labor (Uber’s nifty algorithm for suppressing driver wages), landlordism (RealPage’s widely used rent-hiking software), and neocolonial war (Israel’s high-tech civilian-bombing gadgetry) may already be too entrenched to stop. But professional readers and writers: We retain some... See more