Blind to the Echoes: Why We Keep Walking Into the Same Fire
You have heard the line about history repeating itself so many times it barely registers. The real problem is simpler. People spot the pattern after it has already done the damage. Culture loves the recycle loop. Fashion drags old looks back out and pretends it is innovation. Politics does the same thing with ideas, only the consequences are higher and the return policy is worse. Universities are where a lot of this gets reissued. Young people pick up old political philosophies and feel the electricity of a clean theory. You see it with Marxism, nationalism, utopian fantasies, the whole buffet.
Read moreAI Fighter Jets and Quantum Navigation: Aviation Just Got Weirder (and Smarter)
So yes, the US Air Force really did put an AI in a modified F 16 and let it fly the jet over California with the humans onboard reduced to what is basically a very expensive witness statement. Frank Kendall went up in the X 62A VISTA at Edwards, in an aircraft that exists for one job: stress testing autonomy in a platform that normally relies on a flesh and bone pilot not making a single mistake while pulling G. This was not a random PR lap either. It sits inside a longer run of work where the US has
Read more3D Printing: The Trade Disruptor No One Saw Coming
3D printing used to be the hobby corner of the internet. A place for tech nerds, startup prophets, and people who wanted to print a toothbrush holder purely out of spite for Amazon delivery times. That phase is basically over. Additive manufacturing is sliding into real production and it does it quietly, which is always how the biggest shifts start. Early days were chaos. Cheap filament. warped plastic. novelty rubbish. Everyone saw the janky chess pieces and assumed the whole thing would stay a toy. Meanwhile the serious end of the industry kept iterating, kept tightening tolerances, kept improving materials,
Read moreOn the Eve of Quantum Computing
Humanity’s been staring down the road for the next bus of progress ever since the Wright brothers figured out gravity is more of a suggestion than a law. Once we left the ground, the planet got smaller. Time got cheaper. And now the next “bus” is turning up with the engine screaming, the headlights blazing, and absolutely no interest in slowing down for the stop. It’s not one thing either. It’s two. AI is already in the room with us. It’s in your inbox, your spreadsheets, your camera roll, your customer service chats, your kids’ homework. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes
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