Singularity Weblog

When you have a hammer, the world is full of nails. There is no clearer description of Silicon Valley’s view of AI. The result is what I call the Hammer of AI: a single tool wielded against every problem we face, regardless of whether the problem yields to computation at all. There is a now-familiar […]

There is no formula for predicting the future. No formula for dealing with change. No formula for living a good life, for success, for great art, for writing a great book, or for producing a great film. Every time we reach one of those, even when following a formula, we have to break the pattern […]

Some people see a world coming apart. Peter Leyden sees an old world dying so a better one can be born. That, in essence, is The Great Progression, the thesis of Peter Leyden’s forthcoming HarperCollins book and the spine of our conversation. Peter is the OG Silicon Valley futurist who came to San Francisco at […]

A good why can still produce bad outcomes. Here is the case a reader made me wrestle with. *** After I published The AI Paradox: Cure or Poison? last week, a reader asked me a question I have been thinking about ever since. She did not ask whether AI could malfunction. She did not ask […]

Technology promised simplicity. It delivered complexity. AI promised resolution. It is delivering acceleration. The paradox is not a bug. It is the feature. The question is what we choose to do about it. *** Every new technology arrives wearing the costume of liberation. It promises freedom. It promises options. It promises to save us time, […]