by John Hill | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
What is “The Future of Truth” and why has Werner Herzog written a book on it? You ask the legendary director and you get back a soliloquy. It would be familiar to any fan of the filmmaker, who burst onto the arthouse cinema scene in the 1970s as a leading light of the...
by John Hill | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Those of us who were regulars at Blockbuster recall the night-and-weekend ritual of movie rentals—and the moment streaming made it obsolete. Fewer remember that Blockbuster actually sold its own demise: I bought my first Blu-Ray player there, which became my first...
by John Hill | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The comparison between today’s artificial intelligence frenzy and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s has become impossible to ignore. As AI companies command valuations reaching into the hundreds of billions—minting dozens of new billionaires in 2025 alone—and tech...
by John Hill | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nvidia’s announcement earlier this week that it is investing $100 billion into OpenAI to help fund its massive data center build out has added to a growing sense of unease among investors that there is a dangerous financial bubble around AI, and that the revenues and...
by John Hill | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The numbers are eye-popping. Beginning in 2024, a stream of ‘holy shit’ growth metrics from VC-backed startups began to pop up on X [formerly Twitter]. In less than three years, Midjourney’s ARR went from zero to $200 million. In 20 months, ElevenLabs, a voice AI...
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