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The reversal from cared-for child to trusted reassurer happens quietly, without ceremony or warning. Both generations grieve a role neither realised they were about to lose.
For people who grew up before mobile phones, unreachability wasn't a lifestyle choice — it was the default condition of being alive. The mental health cost of what replaced it is only now becoming legible.
The gaming industry's AI reckoning isn't about replacing workers—it's about eliminating the rungs on the ladder that once led there.
In 1973, when OPEC's oil embargo revealed how much of the industrialised world ran on Gulf petroleum, the region's monarchies discovered they had bought themselves a kind of leverage that money alone could not manufacture.
When a government objects to a feature that has not yet launched, over harms that have not yet occurred, and demands the company justify its design choices, something unusual is happening.
What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did.
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
The number that emerged from a leaked negotiation this month was $320. That is what each American household would receive, in equity, if Sam Altman's proposal to hand the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI were distributed evenly across American families.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are reportedly selling software that introduces itself by name, holds a Slack handle, and shows up on org charts.
