For twenty years we traded our data for free email and a map. That data became the training corpus for the most valuable technology ever built — and Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion to settle the claim that it did this without permission.

The EU's AI law postponed itself by sixteen months, and Washington spent 2026 arguing over whether anyone else may regulate AI at all.

The most educated generation in modern history is also the one best equipped to construct arguments for why it doesn't need to pay attention.

AI is not just replacing professional expertise. It is replacing the professionals themselves — with identities that don't eat, don't sleep, and don't make billing errors.

Law, medicine, media, and finance built their authority on scarce expertise. AI just made expertise abundant.

A Carl Sagan calculation, a power grid comparison, and what it means to build something from nothing — twice.

Recursive self-improvement, the end of human excellence, and a Plymouth Duster that got me pulled over five times.

The AI era I enrolled for in 1987 has finally arrived — and everything that happened in between was preparation.