Modern Life
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The AI Industry Has a Problem, and It’s Getting Worse
Years of job-loss warnings, billion-dollar announcements, and god-like claims about technology that often can’t reliably count to ten have quietly built up a head of public resentment. Tech critic Ed Zitron has been making this case for a while. In a recent episode of The Tech Report, he laid out exactly why the industry’s habit
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The Web Is Turning Into One Big Toll Booth
I’ve noticed something lately. Not gradually either. It feels like it’s happened in the space of a year or two. The internet has started putting up gates. You click a link, you want to read something, and you’re met with a banner. Not the old irritating cookie notice – those were bad enough. This one’s
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F1 Has More Tech Than Ever, but…
I miss hearing people talk about engines properly. Horsepower. Torque. Mechanical grip. Drivers wrestling with a machine that might try to throw them into the nearest gravel trap if they got cocky with the throttle. That was the conversation. Was… Now it sounds like someone reading out the spec sheet for a laptop. If anyone
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Advanced Technology That’s Strangely Unreliable
Technology still manages to shock me. Not because it’s clever. We all know it’s clever. What surprises me is how often it fails at basic things. I’m not talking about complicated scientific systems or experimental gadgets. I mean the everyday stuff. The things we all rely on without thinking. And oddly enough, the more advanced
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Why We Scroll Everything and Remember Nothing
I used to do a lot of family and pet photography. Weddings. Newborn shoots. Dogs mid-leap in a field. Grandparents holding hands. The sort of moments people say they want to “treasure forever”. And do you know what started to quietly frustrate me? People would look at a photograph for about three seconds. “Ah that’s
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Another YouTube Trust Problem – Fake LIVE Badges
Slapping LIVE on a channel avatar when nothing is live is pure theatre. It exploits the same reflex as red notification dots and fake urgency banners. Your brain sees “live”, assumes scarcity or relevance, and your thumb pauses. That’s the entire game. What makes it worse is that it trains people to distrust the signal
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When Your Tools Only Work 99% of the Time
What if the tool you use, and your ability to use it, is all down to somebody else? What you think you hold in your hand, that you’ve bought and paid for, can only be used if and when other systems are in place and up and running. What if you bought a thing –
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Phone Addiction Is Stealing Real Human Connection
You’re mid-sentence. You’re telling someone about your day, something that happened, something that matters to you – and they glance down. Just for a second. Their thumb swipes. Their eyes leave yours. And you stop talking. Not because you’ve finished. Because you’ve been dismissed. You know the moment. We all do. You might be on
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China’s AI Hospital – No Real Patients. But The Future?
In Summary: China’s Tsinghua University launched what they’re calling the world’s first AI hospital, but it’s not treating real patients. Agent Hospital is a completely virtual simulation where AI agents play doctors, nurses, and patients in a closed digital loop. The system now has 42 AI doctors across 21 specialties achieving 93% diagnostic accuracy on
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Stop Paying for Things You Forgot You Bought
Woke up this morning to an email confirming two domain renewals. Domains I’d completely forgotten I owned, on a hosting account I didn’t remember creating. Thirty quid gone, just like that. Auto-renewed while I slept. It’s not the money, really. It’s the reminder that we’re all doing this. Buying subscriptions on a whim, promising ourselves