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Steve Sammartino

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Steve is Australia's most respected futurist and media commentator on emerging technology. He has spoken to over 200,000 people around the world.

Tech news / industryAI / MLEssays / personal

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2,005 from 2 Aug 2006 to 10 Aug 2026
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Latest

August 2026

  1. Hve we reached ‘Peak Attention Economy’?

July 2026

  1. ChatGPT won’t take your job, the robots will
  2. The Bubble we had to have
  3. The one skill kids need right now

June 2026

  1. The AI Mini Me
  2. Google does a 2 for 1
  3. Can Capitalists Believe in a Wealth Tax?
  4. From Search Engine to Answer Machine

May 2026

  1. How to think like a Futurist
  2. Bullshit Jobs Meet Better Machines
  3. The 7 Mega Trends of the Sovereign Era
  4. The Coming Prediction Addiction

April 2026

  1. The AI CEO
  2. The AI Investment Paradox

March 2026

  1. How We Offshored Our Future
  2. The Post-Human Economy

February 2026

  1. Hiding Humans behind the AI Curtain
  2. AI Just Built Its Own Social Network
  3. In AI we Trust ?

December 2025

  1. Tech in 2025 – Review
  2. Welcome to the Splinternet

November 2025

  1. A New Era: Tech That Builds Middle Classes, Not Addiction Loops
  2. AI Just Rewrote the Advertising Playbook
  3. The most important thing about your Robot

October 2025

  1. Why Agentic AI still needs a Pilot
  2. What Is the Most Profitable Strategy of All Time?
  3. From the Born to the Made
  4. Proof AI Won’t Kill Creativity
  5. What’s in the Museum of the Future?
  6. The AI Sovereignty Gap
  7. Income ≠ Value: The Tax Revolution the World Needs

August 2025

  1. From Streetlights to Street-Bots
  2. The AI Apocalypse You Shouldn’t Fear (and the One You Should)
  3. The Robot I Just Bought Will Replace a Plumber
  4. AI – The Ultimate Human Selfie

July 2025

  1. AI Replaced a Job… That Never Would’ve Existed
  2. I Asked AI How It Would Remove Humans. Here’s What It Said…
  3. AI – How will we know when it’s sentient?
  4. So what’s next after AI?

May 2025

  1. AI – Mirror World Drift
  2. AI – Why hasn’t it taken your job yet?

April 2025

  1. AI: What Apple should do to Stop the Rot
  2. AI – Vibe Coding Changes Everything

March 2025

  1. AI – Decoding Human Thought

January 2025

  1. Tech & A.I. Trends for 2025
  2. Netflix serves a knockout blow

October 2024

  1. AI Girlfriends – A social disaster in the making
  2. How AI will redefine Energy
  3. Could A.I. Kill the Internet?

August 2024

  1. AI & Living Forever
  2. AI Zeitgeist – New Media Reality

July 2024

  1. AI – Image Recongition Commerce

June 2024

  1. AI killed the Radio Star

May 2024

  1. The A.I. ‘For You Page’
  2. AI – Imaginary Friends
  3. AI – How to be an Expert

April 2024

  1. The Humanoid AI

December 2023

  1. Top 10 AI Trends – 2024

November 2023

  1. Creating your own AI
  2. Here Comes the Mind Gym – AI in Society

October 2023

  1. The Astounding Eyes of AI
  2. AI Resurrections Are Coming

September 2023

  1. AI Houses & Reverse Mentors

August 2023

  1. Protesting Against AI
  2. Deep Fake Love & AI Girlfriends

July 2023

  1. Could AI eat itself?
  2. AI – Why we must Redefine Intelligence

June 2023

  1. Elections in the AI era
  2. AI – Risk of Extinction
  3. Banning AI in Schools

May 2023

  1. Fake Drake and AI Twins
  2. AI – God Mod

April 2023

  1. Get Rich by Tricking AI
  2. AI – Merging with Machines
  3. AI – Our New Overlord?

March 2023

  1. The Age of Viral Finance
  2. Your Own Personal Jarvis
  3. AI Generated Entertainment
  4. A.I.’s Window of Opportunity
  5. AI is Redefining Real

February 2023

  1. Disrupting Google
  2. Life Changing AI Tools
  3. Robotic Love
  4. Converting Bits to Atoms

January 2023

  1. How A.I. just changed the Internet

November 2022

  1. MetaVerse – Use cases

October 2022

  1. Metaverse – Hype of Reality?
  2. The Metaverse Lowdown

September 2022

  1. TV Reality Check

August 2022

  1. The Attention Scoreboard

July 2022

  1. From Big Tech to ‘Big Voice’
  2. The Social Media Game Show
  3. The Most Important Skill of The Future

June 2022

  1. Headlines from the Future

May 2022

  1. Is Netflix Over?
  2. USA – The End of an Empire

April 2022

  1. Enlightened Loyalty

March 2022

  1. The Weirdness of Tech, Storytelling and Putin
  2. You’re Not Ready

February 2022

  1. Peak Facebook?
  2. Touch Down – Super Bowl hits & misses
  3. Is Crypto Gambling or Investing?

December 2021

  1. Everyone will own NFTs

November 2021

  1. Technology as a Religion

October 2021

  1. Zero Person Corporations & DAO’s
  2. Welcome to the Splinternet

September 2021

  1. Programmable Currency is coming
  2. It’s time to fix social media. This is how.
  3. Meta-Benefits & NFT’s

August 2021

  1. NFT to TV Star
  2. Competence, Confidence & your Future

July 2021

  1. The Rebound – Season 2

June 2021

  1. Technology Externalities – Q&A

May 2021

  1. Changing Shape & Big Tech
  2. Keep Pushing
  3. Channel Overload

April 2021

  1. Surfing into the Future

March 2021

  1. Beyond the NFT Bubble
  2. Why Bitcoin can never be a global currency

February 2021

  1. The New Tech Battle

December 2020

  1. Make it Real – Write it Down

November 2020

  1. Tech Investing Tricks
  2. Rebound out of COVID-19

October 2020

  1. 2 Things Relationships Are Built On
  2. Five Years From Now
  3. How to sell ideas
  4. Three Skills Your Future Depends On
  5. Graduate to Greatness

September 2020

  1. Divided by Algorithms – COVID-19 series
  2. The Worst Advice Ever – COVID-19 series

August 2020

  1. Don’t Be Evil? – COVID-19 series
  2. The End of the Cinema? – COVID-19 series

July 2020

  1. Dealing With Uncertainty – COVID-19 series
  2. Talent Matters – COVID-19 series
  3. Inventing Tomorrow’s Jobs – COVID-19 series
  4. Choose your own Adventure #2 – COVID-19 series

June 2020

  1. Mega Trends – COVID-19 series
  2. The Currency of Language – COVID-19 series
  3. Houses of the Future – COVID-19 series

May 2020

  1. Perception and Your Career – COVID-19 series
  2. What the Fork? Strategy for 2020 – COVID-19 series
  3. Commercialising the Afterlife – COVID-19 series
  4. Escaping the Cubicle Farm – COVID-19 series
  5. Globalisation vs Nationalism – COVID-19 series

April 2020

  1. Surveillance in our Schools – COVID-19 series
  2. Post Covid Possibilities – COVID-19 series
  3. Climate vs Coronavirus – COVID-19 series
  4. Under the Skin Surveillance – COVID-19 series
  5. Choose your own Adventure – COVID-19 series
  6. The Business of Biomimicry – CODVID-19 series

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