AI Has Made Scams Personal. The Best Defence Is Still Dead Boring.
AI makes scams faster and more personal. A business futurist on the boring basics that still work, hacked supermarket freezers and the Binance fake job interview.
Robot Shoppers Are Knocking, and the Shops Are Deciding Whether to Answer
Robot shoppers are knocking at the shop door, and the shops don’t agree on whether to answer. From the 2009 Store of the Future to the agent with your card.
Two Banks Gave Cheques 30 or 40 Years. Most of Us Stopped Long Before.
Two large banks once told me the end of cheques was 30 or 40 years away, if ever. The government’s end date is 2030. Most of us had already stopped.
The Agent That Asks Before It Answers
Agents now act for us and clones can sound like anyone. The most useful agent may be the one that slows you down. From my RTHK Radio 3 segment.
Two Brains, One Skull, and the Wrong Place to Start
Stanford found the brain is two organs grown from two different starting cells. Decades of failed lab work came from one assumption nobody went back to check. What that means for medicine, and for the times we keep trying harder at the wrong thing.
Still Running on 1569
The map on the classroom wall was drawn in 1569, and we were marked on how well we could reproduce it. Phil Whelan asked me the harder question on air: we can’t go through life re-examining everything, so how do we choose? Coffee is coffee and tea is tea. What varies is how far in you go.
