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October 2026

  1. DOC 2026: Science on the Brink
  2. DOC Is Next Week!
  3. The AI Narrative Has Shifted
  4. In Defense of Writing (and Reading, and Conversation)

September 2026

  1. Get An Agent Who Works For You
  2. On Suleyman’s Conjecture: Should AI Have Rights?
  3. Google Has Lapped ChatGPT. Now What?
  4. AI Data Dustups, Bond Market Tremors, and Whatever Muse Is
  5. Comparing OpenAI’s Ad Platform to Early Google and Facebook Growth

August 2026

  1. Inadvertent Time Travel
  2. The Essential Question: Can We Control AI?
  3. Data. Is. Not. Oil. Can It Be A Public Good?
  4. What’s Next?
  5. AI Is Just (Currently Bad) Software
  6. The Data Center Debate Rages. Will It Change the Course of History?

July 2026

  1. Five Stories To Watch
  2. The Valley Is Terrified of AI
  3. What’s up: DOC!
  4. Who Owns Search Results?
  5. Who Controls the Tokens?
  6. I’ll Be Framing My AI Check
  7. Again, What About the AI Ads?
  8. The Rhymes of Tech History
  9. Who Stole My Alpha?
  10. The Economics of AI Are Shifting
  11. Have We Lost The Plot?

June 2026

  1. Remembering Om Malik
  2. How Can You Trust the News?
  3. Quitting A Digital Habit
  4. Will AI Ever Become a True Platform? Not Without Us….
  5. Who Should Govern Us, Apple or…The Government?
  6. Wait, Chat Is Dead? Does That Mean OpenAI Is Abandoning Ads?
  7. Should AI Be Addictive?
  8. Where’s All the AI Magic?
  9. Google Encloses The Web

May 2026

  1. Is AI Inherently Anti-Social?
  2. Data Is Non Rivalrous. Why Have We Enclosed It?
  3. What’s Up With DOC? 2026 Program Launches Today
  4. OpenAI Plans on Marketing Its Way To Glory. Bonne Chance!

April 2026

  1. Where’s My AI Shareware?!
  2. Your Conversations With AI Are Now On Sale
  3. Options Destroyed
  4. The Island Underground Radio Station
  5. The Web We Want Vs. The Web We Have
  6. First Person Singularities, Epistemic Supply Chains, and Load Bearing Euphemisms: An Interview with Claude.ai
  7. The Withline
  8. Product, Platform, Interface, Medium, Language: What Is AI?

March 2026

  1. Rebel, King, and Tyrant: Apple at 50
  2. We Dream of Genies, But Will Big Tech Let Us Use Them?
  3. How Long Will Your Claw Be Open?
  4. Will Anthropic Pivot to Consumer?

February 2026

  1. I’m Sorry, LinkedIn!
  2. First Look at OpenAI Ads
  3. Claude Says Non to Ads
  4. Advertising Built Generative AI. Now Comes the Remodel.

January 2026

  1. How Search Drove Generative AI – A Passage from “The Search”
  2. Anthropic Says the Quiet Part Out Loud.
  3. Thriving in an AI World: The Importance of Good Questions
  4. AI and Ads: Here We Go!
  5. Predictions 2026: The Full List
  6. Do You Trust The Conjurer? (Predictions 2026, #1)
  7. The Apple Google Duopoly Begins Anew
  8. Battle Lines Are Drawn (Predictions 2026, #2)
  9. Magic and Mayhem (Predictions 2026, #3)
  10. Health Takes Center Stage, Open Evidence Acquired (Predictions 2026, #5 and #4)
  11. Finally, Voice Interfaces For The Home (Predictions 2026, #6)
  12. The Year Tech Gets Even Bigger (Predictions 2026, #7)
  13. AI Can’t Cost This Much (Predictions 2026, #8)
  14. Anthropic Goes Public (Predictions 2026 #9)
  15. The Feed Declines (Predictions 2026, #10)

December 2025

  1. What I’ve Learned: On Health
  2. Grading My 2025 Predictions
  3. Two Approaches to Saving The Web. Only One Works.
  4. Algorithms and Capitalism: Cleaning Up The Waze Parade
  5. OpenAI: Code Red? More Like Code Green!
  6. Is OpenAI Today’s Netscape? Or Is It AOL?

November 2025

  1. Target Has an OpenAI App. Is That Good News?

September 2025

  1. Wired’s Backbone Stiffens
  2. Will AI Replace Doctors?
  3. Is AI In The Trough of Disillusionment Yet?
  4. Google (and Apple) Get a Slap on The Wrist

August 2025

  1. The Planet Is Warming, But Our Speech Has Chilled

July 2025

  1. The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone.
  2. Tech And Society’s Faustian Bargain
  3. If You Trust AI, You’re Asleep. (At Least You’re Not “Woke”)
  4. Is AI Killing Search Marketing?
  5. Nearly 30 % of All Bullsh*t Online Is Health Related
  6. CloudFlare To The AI Industry: Pay Up!

June 2025

  1. The Standard, Part 2: “The Internet Weekly”
  2. AI Is Breaking The Internet. Can Bill Gross Fix It?
  3. The Standard, Part 1 – The End and The Beginning
  4. Get Wired: The Launch (1992-93)

May 2025

  1. One Fateful Phone Call: How I Ended Up At Wired
  2. The Trouble With Bees
  3. Headless Marketing
  4. A “White Collar Recession”? It Won’t Be AI’s Fault.
  5. Is AI the “Big Bang” or Merely a “Turning Point”? Much Depends on the Answer
  6. How Google Can Win the Future
  7. Free the Database of Intentions: Could Google Thrive If It Gives Away Its Data?
  8. Wait, What’s This DOC Thing You’re Doing?!

April 2025

  1. How On Earth Will OpenAI Hit $129 Billion in Four Years?!
  2. Who Owns Your AI Identity? (Hint: Not You)
  3. Should AI Write Our Fiction?
  4. “Ready Later This Year”
  5. Zuck Lobbies Trump: Optics No Longer Matter

March 2025

  1. The University of Peers and Elders
  2. Facebook Goes Backward. Why?
  3. Google (And all of Tech) to News: Shove It.
  4. Where’s The Business Model in Chat-Based Search?
  5. Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink
  6. How Is AI Changing Search? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  7. Tech Used To Be Magical. Why Isn’t It Anymore?

February 2025

  1. My Morning Paper

January 2025

  1. When Tech Gets Too Big To Fail

December 2024

  1. Predictions 2025: Tech Takes the Power Position
  2. Looking Back at 2024: How Did My Predictions Fare?
  3. Can Bluesky Do Advertising Right? Yes.
  4. The Tragedy of Generative AI
  5. The Token Act – A Modest Proposal from 2018

November 2024

  1. Bluesky, Twitter, and “The Open Network”
  2. Apparently, Brand Safety Is Dead. That’s Good For News, No?
  3. Don’t Repeal Section 230. Clarify It.
  4. What I’ve Been Up To This Past Year: DOC

August 2024

  1. Technology, Humanity, and the Existential Test
  2. From the Archive: Tech Must Get Over Its Superman Complex, Or We’re All Screwed

July 2024

  1. Consume First, Deal with the Shit Later
  2. What’s SearchGPT Really About? Moving Past the Training Data Dilemma.
  3. Introducing DOC

May 2024

  1. Ads, Ads Everywhere
  2. Can GenAI Change Big Companies?

April 2024

  1. Wrestling With The Gray Lady
  2. Will GenAI Kill The Web?
  3. Mine, Mine, All Mine
  4. Do We Even Have The Spine To Sacrifice, Just A Little Bit?

March 2024

  1. No. TV Advertising Is Not Going to Become “Performance Driven”

February 2024

  1. Larry Lessig – Why Can’t We Regulate the Internet Like We Regulate Real Space?
  2. Vint Cerf: Maybe We Need an Internet Driver’s License
  3. Google’s On The Field Now. Is It Being Too Cautious?
  4. The Messenger Deserved Its Demise. Its Staff? Not So Much

January 2024

  1. The Question Google Won’t Answer

December 2023

  1. Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data
  2. Google’s “Left of Home” Newsfeed Gets Confused
  3. Eat Sleep Drink Dream – Flipping Work and Life For A Year
  4. Grading my 2023 Predictions: The Batting Average Dips
  5. Advertising Is Coming To Threads. What Happens Next?

November 2023

  1. Why Prime Time TV Might Make a Comeback

October 2023

  1. Why Is The News Business So Terrible?

September 2023

  1. Don’t Sleep on the EU’s Digital Markets and Digital Services Acts
  2. On AI: What Should We Regulate?

August 2023

  1. The Sites That Never Get Built: Why Today’s Internet Discourages Experimentation

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