I’m going to come right out and say it: Don’t buy your kids any toys with AI in them this
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Edit As You Go… And Imagination Goes With It
Why wait for the next Frozen movie when you can just… make your own? That’s (kind of) the new pitch
Continue readingFacing Facebook – The Business Of Belief
What business is Meta really in? It’s easy to say “advertising.”But that answer feels incomplete.Too simple for a platform that
Continue readingIs AI Rewiring How We Think?
Who is shaping how we think and buy? It’s interesting that it may be Sam Altman from OpenAI way more
Continue readingThe Rise Of AI Slopaganda
We used to call it “fake news.” Now it’s AI slop.A digital slurry of half-truths, deepfakes and dopamine. Videos engineered
Continue readingThe Age Of The Artificial Celebrity
We’ve entered the “believe nothing” phase. You’ve seen the clips.Martin Luther King Jr. delivering a speech he never gave.Robin
Continue readingWe’ve Left The Attention Economy… Welcome To The Intimacy Economy
Maybe the viral moment isn’t dead… maybe it just got too personal? Remember when the internet felt shared?When we all
Continue readingYour Face Is The Next Platform
The face is becoming a platform. Not a product category… a battleground for presence, privacy and persuasion.We moved computing from
Continue readingWhat Can Stop The Brain Rot?
Let’s not bury the lede… it’s reading books. We don’t talk enough about what books do to the brain.Not what
Continue readingDynamic Pricing Is Dynamically Breaking Us
Remember when prices were… the price? A ticket cost $40. A carton of milk was $2.49. A hardcover book was
Continue readingLogos Lie. Names Distract. Ideas Matter.
I read a new book recently that sent me spiralling. It made me realize just how primitive… and primal we
Continue readingAmbient Disassociation – The Social Media Collapse?
Maybe this is it? Maybe these are the last days of social media. Not because people are logging off in protest. Not
Continue readingWhen Value Becomes A Trillion
Elon Musk might be on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. But the headline isn’t the number.The real story
Continue readingThe Real Test Of AI Is The Human One
Every new invention looks obvious in hindsight. Electricity… the printing press… the internet.But at the time? Few really knew what
Continue readingAI Can Make Smart People Smarter (And Everyone Else Sloppier)
Every new technology sparks similar fears… It’s making us dumber… It’s making us lazier… It’s making us weaker… Television will
Continue readingAnnie Wilson On The Growth Dilemma – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast
Episode #998 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen
Continue readingSPOS #998 – Annie Wilson On The Growth Dilemma
Welcome to episode #998 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast. Annie Wilson is a marketing professor at
Continue readingCulture Rot In The Age Of Screens
We used to worry that smartphones were melting our attention spans. Turns out the bigger story may be how they’re
Continue readingWhen Dating Turns Into A Star Rating
Should we rate the people we date like we do with Uber drivers? Because we are.Like restaurants.Like gadgets we buy
Continue readingAI Slop Is Eating The Internet (And You’re Eating It Too)
There was a time when “content” felt like a generous word. A beautiful essay shared to the world… a well-edited
Continue readingTikTalk – Welcome To The Algorithm’s Accent
We used to create content to be understood. Now, more often than not, we create for more clicks.It starts small…
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