Media 2050.

Predicting the future of media is a strangely intimate act. It forces you to look at technology. It also makes you look at yourself—your assumptions, your blind spots, and the cultural air you breathe without noticing. I’ve been making these predictions for more than thirty years. It has been long enough to see some of them come true. Others have fallen apart. I’ve been making these predictions for more than thirty years. It has been long enough to see some of them come true. Others have fallen apart.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library: A Love Letter to Little Readers

There are few gifts more powerful than a child’s first book. A book can turn bedtime into an adventure, a parent’s lap into a classroom, and a quiet afternoon into a doorway to the wider world. That simple belief is at the heart of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that mails free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to children from birth until age five, regardless of family income.

AI Ethics at a Crossroads: A Global View

Artificial intelligence has become a defining force of the 21st century, reshaping economies, governance, communication, and even the way societies understand human identity. Yet the world’s major institutions are not responding to AI from a single shared worldview. Instead, they are articulating distinct frameworks rooted in their own histories, values, and priorities.

The Case Against Stephen Colbert

There are many reasons Stephen Colbert was removed from CBS. However, this article looks at the economic case against the show.

Capturing the Northern Lights: A Journey with AI Assistance

What is an AI image? I recently took a trip with a difficult photography challenge. AI helped considerably in the process from planning to clarifying the final image. The question is, “What is fair and what is unreal?” The end compares a raw and an AI clarified image.

Navigating the Creator Economy: Revenue Strategies and Insights

The global creator economy has matured into a multi‑hundred‑billion‑dollar market. How does a person break into and profit from this new market. This white paper explored the projected revenue and dangers content creation.

Understanding Prediction Markets: A New Tool in Political Surveying

In recent years, we have grown to accept sports betting. Commentators will frequently quote the official odds in a game or share how they would bet. A quiet industry has grown over the same time. In one way, it feels like a new gambling opportunity. In another, it becomes an alternative survey methodology.

Ethical Image Manipulation in the Age of AI

AI is rewriting the rules of what is real and what is fake. As content producers, we need to consider the line between reality and deception.

Arguing with Copilot: Who is the Pope?

I spent an hour arguing with Copilot about a simple fact. I learned two things. First, that Copilot can get things wrong. Second, that AIs do not just agree with you.

Evolution of Media Concern

hildren’s engagement with media has long been a focal point of public concern. The debates surrounding children’s television in the 1980s share striking similarities with today’s anxieties about social media. From the outside, the concerns seem remarkably similar, but as we dig into the issue, there are clear differences.