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Wired Stiffens Its Backbone

We didn’t have much money when we launched Wired back in January of 1993, but we needed to get the word out somehow. We couldn’t spend our…

Sep 22

Wired Stiffens Its Backbone

Sep 22

AI and The Dot C

These two things can be true at the same time:

Sep 8

AI and The Dot C

Sep 8

Monopoly Money: Google and App

Back in the day when I was covering Google on a daily basis, I’d have spent hours poring over yesterday’s news that the judge in Google’s…

Sep 3

Monopoly Money: Google and App

Sep 3

Warm Earth, Chilled Speech

More than a decade ago I was working on a book about the impact of data on society. I was obsessed with a maddening and seemingly…

Aug 1

Warm Earth, Chilled Speech

Aug 1

We’re Doing AI All Wrong.

I’ve written a lot about AI lately, and I’ll admit, most of it is critical. Plenty of you have asked me why I’m so down on the sector. The…

Jul 31

We’re Doing AI All Wrong.

Jul 31

Faust, AI, and the Grand Bargain We’ve Already Made

Capture.

Jul 23

Faust, AI, and the Grand Bargain We’ve Already Made

Jul 23

What’s The Opposite of Woke? Asleep.

Today brought so many stories worth “notes and observations” that I thought I’d try something new — a flash newsletter of sorts, with…

Jul 18

What’s The Opposite of Woke? Asleep.

Jul 18

OK, Google, What’s The Business Model?

(This piece is cross-posted from Signal360, where it first appeared)

Jul 9

OK, Google, What’s The Business Model?

Jul 9

Why Healthcare Bullshit Is Clogging Up The Internet

Every so often I have the chance to catch up with Gordon Crovitz and Steve Brill, the founders of NewsGuard. I was an advisor to their…

Jul 3

Why Healthcare Bullshit Is Clogging Up The Internet

Jul 3

Cloudflare To The AI Industry: Time To Pay Up!

There are precious few companies in the tech world that are willing to stick their necks out and “do the right thing,” and even fewer who…

Jul 1

Cloudflare To The AI Industry: Time To Pay Up!

Jul 1

John Battelle

John Battelle

A Founder of DOC, The Recount, NewCo, Federated Media, sovrn Holdings, Web 2 Summit, Wired, Industry Standard; writer on Media, Technology, Culture, Business

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