After the Splash: Mapping AI's Three Waves of Displacement
There is something meditative about the moment a pebble meets still water. A clean, decisive movement, the pond holding the impact. And then the first ring appears, expanding outward with quiet inevitability; it is easy to forget that the movement will keep going, and going, long after the stone has settled into the silt.
Adrift in the Algorithm: What Géricault's Raft Reveals About Our Age of AI
In 1816, the French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of Mauritania, a victim of an incompetent captain appointed for political rather than professional reasons. The officer class commandeered the available lifeboats. One hundred and fifty others were set adrift on a hastily constructed raft. After thirteen days of thirst, madness, murder, and cannibalism, fifteen survivors were rescued. The event became an international scandal of the day.
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