AI agents are gaining the ability to purchase webpages, datasets, APIs, and expert knowledge. That may help sustain the people and organizations producing trustworthy information. It may also create a new, largely invisible divide between students whose AI can afford current information and those whose AI cannot.
I was listening to The Best One Yet, a business podcast, and they were talking about Salt and Straw, the Portland-based ice cream chain currently valued at $200 million. What caught my attention wasn’t the valuation. It was how they’ve created nearly 1,000 flavors across 15 years. They don’t drop new flavors randomly. They release…
A few mornings ago, after dropping my daughter off at school, I put on an episode of The Why Files during the drive home. The topic was morphic resonance. This was not where I expected my morning to go. If you’ve never heard of morphic resonance, it’s a controversial theory that suggests knowledge and patterns…