How We Offshored Our Future
The latest post by Steve Sammartino
Turning Cheap Imports Into an Expensive Decline So what did we get from Globalisation? Cheap T-shirts, flat-screen TVs, and a housing Ponzi scheme. Of course I’m being flippant, but there’s some veracity to this statement…. [ READ POST ]
The Post-Human Economy
March 2, 2026
When Robots Do the Work and the Shopping A popular internet meme is the idea of “Late-Stage Capitalism” — a sarcastic label for capitalism’s “end game.” Its features include extreme inequality, corporate dominance, and an economy where… [ READ POST ]
Hiding Humans behind the AI Curtain
February 24, 2026
Why Big Tech is not as special as we imagine. No drivers… in the seats that is. Waymo’s recent admission in Washington — that its “driverless” robotaxis rely on real-time human guidance from offshore workers… [ READ POST ]
AI Just Built Its Own Social Network
February 16, 2026
And we’re not invited – but we can watch! Listen to Steve read this post below (5 min audio) Remember AI Agents? Not ChatGPT. Not copilots. I mean Agents. The little digital interns we were told would… [ READ POST ]
In AI we Trust ?
February 9, 2026
The AI Brand War just Started The most common use case of AI (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini is… Therapy. Yep — the stuff that is often as personal as it gets…. [ READ POST ]
Tech in 2025 – Review
December 22, 2025
Hits, misses and what went under the radar AI Investment Bubble: Capital is flooding into AI startups at a rate that outpaces both revenues and real-world deployment capacity. Just this year, $350–400B was invested – that’s… [ READ POST ]
Welcome to the Splinternet
December 8, 2025
Fake takes over, and we retreat to human spaces Believe it or not, I actually typed these words. But first I had an idea in my head, based on what I’ve read recently, and what… [ READ POST ]