Technology, AI, and the Machine Future

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Synthetic Reasoning

Essay | Jan 29, 2025 | v1.1 | 7 min read

The Dawn of Self-Evolving AI

The Ash Pond Under the Cloud
Essay | May 15, 2026 | v1.1 | 8 min read
EPA's coal-water proposal turns AI's hunger for electricity into a fight over wastewater, grid reliability, and who lives downstream.
Modern Prometheus
Essay | May 7, 2026 | v1.2 | 7 min read
When humans learned to command lightning, they changed night, labor, distance, and the shape of modern life.
Smokestack Spreadsheets
Essay | Apr 29, 2026 | v1.1 | 11 min read
OpenAI's missed targets turned a private forecast into a public wager on chips, cloud contracts, substations, and time.
The Model That Could Not Leave
Essay | Apr 28, 2026 | v1.1 | 11 min read
China's block of Meta's Manus deal shows how AI companies are becoming strategic territory, even after their headquarters, staff, and paperwork move abroad.
The AI Data Center Wants Its Own Power Plant
Essay | Apr 23, 2026 | v1.2 | 10 min read
The race to build AI at industrial scale is no longer just a story about chips and models. It is becoming a story about gas turbines, utility filings, and the quiet privatization of power.
AI in Education Is a Wicked Problem
Essay | Jan 21, 2026 | v1.2 | 4 min read
~ And Why We Can’t Figure it Out
Why Superintelligence Strategy Gets AI Governance Wrong
Essay | Mar 12, 2025 | v1.2 | 10 min read
A deep dive into why AI governance frameworks like MAIM fail — and why superintelligence can’t be contained.
The Future of AI and Technical Jobs: Why Review Work Is Your Best Bet (For Now)
Essay | Feb 25, 2025 | v1.2 | 5 min read
AI is automating technical work, but human reviewers still matter. Here's why.
Meta’s AI Ambitions: The Future of Intelligence or an Alignment Crisis?
Essay | Feb 1, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest earnings call was more than a routine financial update: it was a declaration of intent. Meta is staking its claim…
DeepSeek: Lean AI Disrupts America’s Compute-Heavy Tech Giants
Essay | Jan 29, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
STaR and the Self-Improving Reasoning Ideas Behind DeepSeek
Beyond Moore’s Law
Essay | Jan 23, 2025 | v1.2 | 8 min read
Examining the parallels between compute power, renewable energy, and battery technology
The Death of Moore’s Law
Essay | Jan 17, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
How the Limits of Physics Are Reshaping the Future of Computing