by Allan | Jun 18, 2026 | Digital Culture
If your social feeds have suddenly filled up with jersey photos, stadium shots, and increasingly confident predictions from people who couldn’t have named five players a month ago — congratulations, the World Cup is here, and so is watch-party season. Whether...
by Allan | Jun 12, 2026 | Digital Culture
Data centers are the unglamorous infrastructure behind everything that runs in a browser or on a phone. When they work, nobody thinks about them. But two things happened this week that are worth understanding, because they point to a real crunch in the physical...
by Allan | Jun 5, 2026 | Digital Culture
AI video has had a long almost-useful phase. You could generate clips that looked impressive in screenshots and fell apart the moment anything moved. Runway’s Gen-4.5, which shipped earlier this year, is the version where I stopped noticing those things first...
by Allan | Jun 5, 2026 | Digital Culture
The average person worldwide now spends 6 hours and 38 minutes per day looking at screens. Four and a half of those hours are on a smartphone. If you’re a knowledge worker, your screen time is almost certainly higher. And if you’ve tried to cut back and...
by Allan | Jun 3, 2026 | Digital Culture
For the past decade, the cultural story around tech was accumulation. More apps, more notifications, more screens. The person who responded fastest was, implicitly, the most important one in the room. That story has quietly inverted. The most coveted status symbol of...
by Allan | May 24, 2026 | Digital Culture
There’s a lot of noise around AI tools right now. Some of it is genuine excitement about real capability improvements. Some of it is marketing. And some of it is people retrofitting AI into their workflow because they feel like they’re supposed to, not...
