And it still is
I posted Why Music Radio is Dying almost 15 years ago, but it’s getting action now for some reason.
Verily
Reid Hoffman in Faith in the Possible:
“It’s easy to get caught up in product releases and cycles, and forget that every technology traces this spiritual arc. You are born into it, converted, or you recede. So it is written. The car, the plane, the personal computer, the mobile phone: each arrived as a disruption and became, within a generation, invisible infrastructure. Amen. Today, more than 4 billion people carry a networked computer in their pocket. The majority of them are in the developing world. They did not get a library or a bank branch first. They got a phone. The phone is the library and the bank.
“Technology’s arc bends toward access. But it does not bend on its own. Behold the technologist’s creed: through building to scale, we extend what is possible. Possible for whom has always been the humanist’s question. It is now everyone’s. The more the machines build and scale, the more that matters.”
Tempting
“The infrastructure layer for your thinking. One database, one AI gateway, one chat channel. Any AI you use can plug in. No middleware, no SaaS chains, no Zapier.
“This isn’t a notes app. It’s a database with vector search and an open protocol — built so that every AI tool you use shares the same persistent memory of you. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, whatever ships next month. One brain. All of them.
“Open Brain was created by Nate B. Jones. Follow the Substack for updates, discussion, and the companion prompt pack. Join the Discord for real-time help and community.”
Fresh new nightmare
404 Media: This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright. It begins, “For a small price, Malus.sh will use AI to ingest any piece of software you give and spit out a new version of it that ‘liberates’ it from any existing copyright licenses. The result is a new piece of software that serves the same function, but doesn’t have to honor, for example, the kind of copyright licenses that ensure open source software remains free to use and modify, a process which could upend the already fragile open source ecosystem. The site is an elaborate bit of satire designed to bring attention to a very real problem in open source…”
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