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For the whole history of the species, keeping a relationship warm cost time, and time was the wall around your social world. AI just made the upkeep free. The wall does not come down – it retreats to the only thing it was ever made of: your presence. … readEveryone Gets Remembered
Baumol’s cost disease was never a disease. It is how an economy reprices the hour that refuses to compress — and AI, the largest productivity event ever aimed at thinking, is about to run that law at machine speed. The interesting question is not what gets cheap. It is who gets the raise. … readThe Expensive Hour
By 2030 the website becomes a catalog your AI reads, and the store becomes the one place a human goes to find out what a screen can no longer prove. What it holds, how it looks, and where it sits on the map. … readWhat a Store Is For
Every time talking at a distance got cheaper, people traveled more. When AI makes the screen perfect and untrustworthy, the value of being physically together goes up, and it reprices offices, cafes, stores, hotels and downtowns. … readPresence Becomes Premium
The day the screen stops counting as evidence, trust does not disappear. It moves to whatever is still expensive to fake, and that is mostly a person in a room. Six predictions for the fallout. … readI Got Pixeled