The painting on the cover of the first US paperback edition of The Hobbit has a lion, a fruit tree, and a pair of emus. There are no lions in The Hobbit. There are no fruit trees or emus. J.R.R. Tolkien was baffled. He wrote to the publisher, “Where is this place? Why emus? And what…
Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first time in 2024. AI models, automated crawlers, good bots, and especially bad bots have…
The internet is splintering into pieces. This will seem like an unhappy story because I have to explain what’s happening and why and it’s kind of sad. But there’s a happy ending! I have a dream about the way a curated web will emerge. There are products coming to make us confident about embracing new AI technology….
Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material. If you’ve been reading Bruceb News for a while, then you know that occasionally I’m compelled to tell you scary bedtime stories about why you don’t have any privacy and how everyone knows where you are all the time. This is the creepiest one…