The real Web 3.0 arrived while nobody was looking, and it isn't the one anyone was selling.
A valet learns a car's edges in four seconds. Robots can't. Naming cross-embodiment eight years before the field did.
What if we built the knowledge commons again — this time for the AI era?
We're losing the conditions that let genius compound — the lab is closing and the library is emptying.
What feeding your intellectual property to a model actually means.
Training models only on data that was freely given.
The building got cheap and shareable. The thinking together became the job.
The genius argument, in slides.
The bottleneck used to be engineering. Now it's delight.
Same prompt, same follow-ups, same user. One finished in 4 messages, the other took 17.
The workflow stayed the same. The unit of production changed.
Natural-language scene description for overhead full-motion video. Bosch et al., JHU APL.
Spoken command and control for robot partners. First author, presented in Banff.