Jeremy Wagstaff·Jun 13, 2025Why AI people don’t get us ordinary people(This is a reprint of the Loose Wire newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.)
Jeremy Wagstaff·May 5, 2025The Shrinking PerimeterAI may make us feel like Rorke’s Drift, but there’s a savannah beyond
Jeremy Wagstaff·Apr 8, 2025There is another mechanism, and it’s not usWe’re in danger of allowing artificial intelligence to control us in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. New research…A response icon17A response icon17
Jeremy Wagstaff·Mar 24, 2025We Need to Map this New World, and FastWe need to radically and urgently rethink how we regard the nexus of politics, technology and business, and as journalist to rethink how we…
Jeremy Wagstaff·Feb 19, 2025The Kindle SwindleYou 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Jeremy Wagstaff·Dec 20, 2024Dealing with email embarrassmentI 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…
Jeremy Wagstaff·Nov 14, 2024The First First-Person WarDrones are changing the way wars are fought, but they’re also changing the way we experience those wars.A response icon1A response icon1
Jeremy Wagstaff·Oct 16, 2024It’s Music, Jim, But Not As We Know ItAccusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questions.
Jeremy Wagstaff·Oct 3, 2024Finding a way out of subscription hellIf your revenue model relies on misleading, impoverishing and gaslighting your customers, then you probably should rethink your model.A response icon1A response icon1
Jeremy Wagstaff·Sep 2, 2024Breaking 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…