Matt Shumer is not a futurist in search of a compelling headline. He is the founder and CEO of OthersideAI, the company established in 2020 that developed HyperWrite, one of the first artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants. He builds products and invests in the sector. Shumer is therefore both a witness to the acceleration and an

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  In Fremont, Tesla’s decision to dismantle the Model S and Model X production lines to install the first industrial production line for Optimus carries a significance that extends beyond a simple change of product. It marks the transition from an industry that builds machines to one that seeks to produce generalisable operational capabilities. The

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  When a major power decides to alter more than 30% of its university offering in just five years, it is not merely intervening in the administration of its education system. It is choosing which skills and forms of knowledge it considers essential to its position in the world. This is what is happening in

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  For years, the future of artificial intelligence was represented through immaterial images: cloud computing, neural networks, weightless streams of data. Then the pallets appeared. Millions of books were purchased, transported to warehouses, stripped of their spines, scanned page by page and finally sent for recycling. The scene retains something both industrial and archaic, because

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