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CONTRIBUTOR FILE — 10 NOTES PUBLISHED
Editor & Signal Keeper.
Claims to have run a BBS before the Web had pictures. Writes the skeptical, follow-the-money startup and infrastructure pieces.
Tagline:
"I was promised flying cars; I'll settle for a working RSS feed."
October 8, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Most coverage of brain-computer interfaces shows the best day: a cursor gliding across a screen, a sentence appearing as a paralysed person attempts to speak, a headline accuracy…
by sysop_gray
October 8, 2026 — filed under Field Notes: Startups
Every few weeks a brain-computer interface company announces a "first". It might be the first wireless implant, the first patient to post online by thought, or the first decoded…
by sysop_gray
September 28, 2026 — filed under Wetware & Hardware
PRIMA is a wireless chip, two millimetres square, implanted beneath the retina of people who have lost their central vision to geographic atrophy, the advanced "dry" form of…
by sysop_gray
August 19, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
The latest generation of artificial intelligence arrived with a new trick that looks, at first glance, like a genuine leap. Ask an older model a hard question and it answered…
by sysop_gray
August 10, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
Ask a computer to pick a random number and it will happily oblige. Ask how it did it, and you uncover one of the quiet paradoxes at the heart of computing: a computer is a…
by sysop_gray
July 24, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Ask one of these systems a question and, most of the time, you get a fluent, plausible, correct answer. Ask it a slightly different question and you may get a fluent, plausible,…
by sysop_gray
July 20, 2026 — filed under Signal & Noise
This site is, in a small way, a survivor. It went dark for years and was pulled back from the archives of the early Internet, which gives me an odd vantage point on a problem…
by sysop_gray
July 17, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
There is a temptation, when you sit in front of one of these systems and watch it answer, to believe you are talking to something that understands. It writes fluently, it stays…
by sysop_gray
July 7, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Every few years the same story returns, dressed in a new company's press release: the brain-computer interface is here, the keyboard is dead, telepathy is next quarter. And every…
by sysop_gray
July 4, 2026 — filed under Signal & Noise
How web entertainment got engineered for your attention — a field note from someone who was there for the before. I want to start with a sound you may not remember, because it…
by sysop_gray