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The Kindle Swindle

You have already heard, I hope, about the changes that Amazon is bringing to Kindle content on Feb 26 2025. In brief, you will no longer be…

Feb 19

Feb 19

Dealing with email embarrassment

I assumed that by now we’d be using something better than email. (Remember Google Wave? No, I don’t either.) But we aren’t. So it’s…

Dec 20, 2024

Dealing with email embarrassment

Dec 20, 2024

The First First-Person War

Drones are changing the way wars are fought, but they’re also changing the way we experience those wars.

Nov 14, 2024

The First First-Person War

Nov 14, 2024

It’s Music, Jim, But Not As We Know It

Accusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questions.

Oct 16, 2024

It’s Music, Jim, But Not As We Know It

Oct 16, 2024

Finding a way out of subscription hell

If your revenue model relies on misleading, impoverishing and gaslighting your customers, then you probably should rethink your model.

Oct 3, 2024

Finding a way out of subscription hell

Oct 3, 2024

Breaking the wall: Drawing the right lessons from Blade Runner(s)

This is the second in a series of pieces I am writing on dystopian movies — — broadly defined — and what they tell us, or could tell us…

Sep 2, 2024

Breaking the wall: Drawing the right lessons from Blade Runner(s)

Sep 2, 2024

The Civil War in Our Heads

I finally braced myself to watch Alex Garland’s Civil War and saw a mirror. It wasn’t a pretty sight

Aug 12, 2024

The Civil War in Our Heads

Aug 12, 2024

Behold, the Ghost of Sir Clive, the Bridge Builder We Need Right Now

We’re in a stasis you might call stagnant tech. How can we find a way forward?

Aug 6, 2024

Behold, the Ghost of Sir Clive, the Bridge Builder We Need Right Now

Aug 6, 2024

Anticipating the wave train of AI

We’ve been poor about trying to predict the real, lasting impact of generative AI.

Jul 2, 2024

Anticipating the wave train of AI

Jul 2, 2024

We need to talk about our AI fetish

Don’t allow those developing AI to lead the debate about its future

Mar 25, 2024

We need to talk about our AI fetish

Mar 25, 2024

Yes, we should care about Julian Assange

Why his actions have, among other things, exposed technology for what it is — and why we owe him for that

Feb 23, 2024

Yes, we should care about Julian Assange

Feb 23, 2024

Destroying the brand to save it

The UK’s Post Office scandal throws up one more lesson for how to understand journalists

Feb 16, 2024

Feb 16, 2024

Why do journalists destroy those they love?

The recent death of a children’s welfare icon in the UK raises questions about the role journalists play in promoting, and then crushing…

Jan 18, 2024

Why do journalists destroy those they love?

Jan 18, 2024

OpenAI’s flawed bid for mass adoption

There’s a lot of excitement, understandably, about ChatGPT rolling out a “roll-your-own” ChatGPT tool. In fact, it’s been so popular OpenAI…

Nov 15, 2023

OpenAI’s flawed bid for mass adoption

Nov 15, 2023

Generative AI: Another way at looking at our new overlord

We have grown sick of social media. But what comes next?

Nov 13, 2023

Generative AI: Another way at looking at our new overlord

Nov 13, 2023

Vertical histories

How we shoot and watch video is changing, and with it the way we engage with the world

Sep 16, 2021

Vertical histories

Sep 16, 2021

why big-name apps are stuck in the core, and why the future is single-celled

There’s a graveyard somewhere with the word Core on it. Relying on a core function is a killer. Think Dropbox. Twitter. Whatsapp. Evernote…

May 18, 2021

why big-name apps are stuck in the core, and why the future is single-celled

May 18, 2021

The Road Beyond Covid

By Jeremy Wagstaff

Dec 22, 2020

The Road Beyond Covid

Dec 22, 2020

Roam wasn’t built in a day, but it is making other knowledge apps seem ancient?

When is innovation just another stab at the past, and when is it revolutionary? When it becomes a bit of a Twitter storm in a teacup, is…

May 18, 2020

Roam wasn’t built in a day, but it is making other knowledge apps seem ancient?

May 18, 2020

Computers have chained us to making us do things their way. Enough is enough

Computers and the software that runs them have long denied us the basic right of dictating to them — not letters and grocery lists, but of…

Apr 18, 2020

Computers have chained us to making us do things their way. Enough is enough

Apr 18, 2020

Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff

Recovering journalist, deluded ambient composer, historian manqué, consultant, commentator, etc. ex Reuters, WSJ, BBC, Southeast Asia

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