The AI summer — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans9 Jul 2024
The AI summer My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now.
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top 53%The VR winter continues — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jul 2024
The VR winter continues It can feel a little odd to write about anything other than generative AI these days, but I sometimes remind people that all the things that we were talking about in October...
Apple intelligence and AI maximalism — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans20 Jun 2024
Apple intelligence and AI maximalism No-one outside Apple has really used any Apple Intelligence features yet.
Building AI products — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jun 2024
Building AI products I will fly to India on Monday for a brief trip, and so I just spent an hour struggling through a very buggy online visa application process.
The Mapping Evolution in My Life
ARKives1 Jun 2024
The Mapping Evolution in My Life Posts from "Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience Through OpenStreetMap Contributions" series: Table of contents: Why are you contributing to OpenStreetMap?
Ways to think about AGI — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans4 May 2024
Ways to think about AGI In 1946, my grandfather, writing as ‘Murray Leinster’, published a science fiction story called ‘A Logic Named Joe’.
AI and problems of scale — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans29 Apr 2024
AI and problems of scale There’s a story in one of Georges Simeon’s 1930s detective stories that I think about sometimes when talking about a certain kind of AI problem.
Looking for AI use-cases — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Apr 2024
Looking for AI use-cases This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982.
City Expansion: Driving Transit Innovation and Last-Mile Connectivity
ARKives30 Mar 2024
City Expansion: Driving Transit Innovation and Last-Mile Connectivity Published: 30 March, 2024 6 mins(s) read Tags: #Geospatial #GIS #Technology Series: Mobility and Urban Dynamics It’s been a...
The problem of AI ethics — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans23 Mar 2024
The problem of AI ethics In the late 1990s, the UK Post Office deployed a new point-of-sale computer system, built for it by Fujitsu.
Burn your toast
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes16 Oct 2023
Burn your toast Posted on There's a simple question I ask myself whenever I consider the usage of a toast-component. What is a toast?
The Artificiality of Alignment
The Gradientby Jessica Dai7 Oct 2023
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream.
Why I Let My Kids Go Into Debt - Frugalwoods
Frugalwoodsby Liz Frugalwoods18 Sept 2023
Last weekend was ye olde county fair here in Vermont and, of course, we were on the scene to cuddle cows (if you’re Kidwoods) and look askance at cows (if you’re Littlewoods).
Reader Case Study: Ex-Pats in Hanoi, Vietnam - Frugalwoods
Frugalwoodsby Liz Frugalwoods24 Jul 2023
Laura and her husband Ethan are from Philadelphia, PA, but have been living in Hanoi, Vietnam for the past two years.
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story
ARKives25 Jun 2023
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story Table of contents: This article is about the vandalism on map License: This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0...
Humility: An Essential Value
A List Apartby by Justin Dauer22 Jun 2023
Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great.
The myth of the lightbulb moment: How to actually come up with ideas • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen230 Mar 2023
A huge international campaign. A compelling headline on a city billboard. A viral video. They all have one thing in common: they started with an idea.
NO IFS, ANDS, OR BUTTS | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors28 Mar 2023
by Megan Woodward ; illustrated by Janelle Wahren ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 8, 2026 The height of humor for youngsters with a penchant for butt jokes. Yes, an entire picture book filled with bottoms.
CHASING ENOUGH | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors24 Jan 2023
by Mandy Balak ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A thoughtful guide that will aid high achievers in finding balance and will serve as a reminder that sometimes enough is...
TIME FREEDOM | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors24 Jan 2023
by Brian Herriot ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A compelling vision of balancing work and free time without waiting for retirement.