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When the Internet Was Scary Too

Everything people fear about AI today, they feared about the internet in 1995 — and understanding that pattern might be the most useful thing you can do right now.

On June 26, 1995, Newsweek published an article by astronomer Clifford Stoll titled "The Internet? Bah!" It opened with this sentence: "After two decades of online, I'm perplexed." Stoll proceeded to explain why the internet was overhyped, why online databases would never replace…

The Quiet Revolution: How AI Went from Lab to Living Room

The untold human story of how artificial intelligence escaped academia and became something your mom texts you about.

In 1966, a computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum sat in his MIT office and watched something that disturbed him profoundly. His secretary — an intelligent, educated woman — was typing messages to ELIZA, a simple chatbot he'd created as a demonstration of how shallow human-co…

The Quiet Revolution: How AI Went from Lab Curiosity to Your Morning Routine

A long-form essay on the cultural shift of AI going mainstream — not about technology, but about how our daily lives quietly transformed while we were busy arguing about sentience.