AI
What the bicycle for the mind really means
The personal computer made us faster without making us passengers. The question is whether AI will do the same, or whether the sparkly prompt box is just too convenient to resist.
business models
journalism
Monetising attention: revisiting a la carte payments in journalism
The ad model doesn't just fail to reward good journalism. It actively incentivises bad journalism. A look at micropayments, clickbait economics, and why online publishing still hasn't figured out how to make quality pay.
business models
The strategy of compatibility
Disruption doesn't always come from below. Sometimes it comes from inside. A look at how cross-platform services like Facebook and Snapchat exploit the platforms that host them, and why owning an ecosystem is no longer the only path to winning.
AI
AI, interaction and business models
The graphical user interface is as good as it's ever going to get. So what comes next? A look at conversational AI, the shift from GUI to CUI, and why the app store model has more to fear from AI than any competitor.
YouTube
Hollywood look out, Silicon Valley is coming
YouTube spent a decade hosting cat videos. Now it wants to make the next Game of Thrones, and it might actually pull it off. A look at why Silicon Valley is coming for Hollywood, and why the content industry has nobody to blame but itself.
journalism
The kind of journalism we pay for
The internet didn't just disrupt journalism's business model. It revealed that the business model was wrong the whole time. A look at why news has no economic right to be profitable, and what publishers should be selling instead.
Tech
The music streaming economy isn't working
Music streaming isn't broken because of Spotify. It's broken because record labels are extracting 45 cents of every dollar for a job the internet already does for free. A look at why the labels' power has well and truly outlasted their usefulness.