When the Silicon Engine Stalls: The AI Bubble Reckoning and the Rise of Sovereign Compute
Strip away the fancy investor decks and venture capital hyperbole, and technology always bows to one unyielding law: arithmetic never …
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Seamus Phan, futurist, influencer and thinker, writes about business, leadership, marketing, branding, technology, health, and more.
Digital Feudalism and Why Local AI Must Set Us Free
I caught Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi epic “The Creator” on my screen the other evening. Beyond the sweeping cinematography and visceral …
When Light Was Drawn, Not Computed: Reclaiming Intentional Photography
As a photographer with about 50 years under my belt, I have always felt a tug of war from how …
The Great AI Migration: Why the Global South and APAC are Shifting to Open Chinese Models
I have spent the last few years consulting and presenting on local large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) …
Bilibili steps up its global game as stalwart pulls up the monetization ladder
The creator economy is experiencing a seismic shift. For more than a decade, Google’s YouTube was the platform for aspiring …
HR & Tech – The Twin Engines of Business Success
Over the decades I have lived and breathed the nexus of human potential and organizational systems and technology. Long before …