Machine Society
Mike ElganCyberpunk non-fiction: artificial intelligence, AI glasses, spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, synthetic media, extended reality, mixed reality and the future of work.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 384 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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The Friend AI Pendant is not a product
SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (JULY 30, 2026) — A superficial glance at the Friend AI Pendant suggests another entry in the burgeoning AI hardware market. It’s a wearable that gives you a virtual “friend” to confide in and maintain a relations...
If AI companies avoid AI slop, shouldn't we?
AI companies expect us to consume AI-generated content, even though they themselves vastly prefer human-generated content for training AI models.
SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (JULY 23, 2026) — 404 Media reported recently that AI companies ar...
How AI makes people confidently wrong
SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (JULY 20, 2026) — New research published last week reveals the mechanism behind the workplace pandemic of people who are overconfident and underqualified.
The mechanism is fluency-based substitution: The ready a...
Amazon invents the Attachment Economy bait-and-switch
Amazon’s first great innovation was the ability to subtly lure people into dependence for eCommerce. Now they’re doing it again with attachment.
SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (JULY 18, 2026) — In the early days of Amazon, the company innovate...
Why "maxxing" is made for social media and terrible for real life
It all began with “looksmaxxing,” the practice of young men spending all their time mewing and chewing gum to enhance the jawline, protein-loading, hairstyling, teeth whitening, tanning, taking steroids, getting plastic surgery and practici...
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