Stephen Moore

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The Future of the Internet Looks Bleak

2 weeks ago | stephenmoore.medium.com | Stephen Moore

Sorry folks, I’m off on another “doomer” rant again. I see a lot of people touting how ChatGPT and other generative AI products are going to usher in the next revolution of the Internet. I call bullshit. Put aside the fact that the leading companies are losing money hand over mouth and burning through copious amounts of resources. Without that ability to make sustainable returns, there is every chance this current wave of AI will implode, wreaking havoc on its way out. There’s a bigger issue at play.
AI transparency framework, DeepSeek’s UX, a new AI-powered design workflow

Feb 3, 2025 | uxdesign.cc | Josh Lamar |Michael Buckley |Stephen Moore |Kike Peña

AI transparency framework, DeepSeek’s UX, a new AI-powered design workflowWeekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Transparency matters because it ensures Trust between the author and the reader. It’s often an unspoken ethical contract: I sign my name on this article and you, the reader, believe me when I said that I wrote it (I did). But AI disrupts this assumption. Should we disclose our use of AI in the first place?
The internet is unusable

Jan 30, 2025 | uxdesign.cc | Stephen Moore

In pursuit of marketing dollars, increasing stock prices and filling shareholder wallets, it’s been broken beyond repair. Image: Created by authorWe’ve reached the point where the Internet — once a tool that offered us the entire world of information at our fingertips — is now completely unusable. The root cause is adverting, and it’s gotten so bad it’s being called the ‘adpocalypse.’Almost every website I go on now is bursting at the digital seams with adverts.
Europe's Bureaucrats, Dripping With Envy, Try To Kneecap America's Successful High-Tech Sector

Jan 15, 2025 | flipboard.com | Stephen Moore

1 day agoApple has a huge lineup of products coming in 2025, including three new Home products, six devices getting rare updates, five new iPhones, and more. Based on the reporting of Mark Gurman and Ming-Chi Kuo especially, here’s a full lineup of what’s coming. Winter and Spring 2025: Apple’s new ‘HomePad’ …
Europe's Bureaucrats, Dripping With Envy, Try To Kneecap America's Successful High-Tech Sector

Jan 15, 2025 | nysun.com | Stephen Moore

Envy is an ugly thing — one of the seven deadly sins. Europeans have long been dripping with jealousy that American firms dominate the tech sector — cellphones, search engines, social media platforms, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Our “magnificent seven” tech companies — including Google, Nvidia, Apple, and Amazon — saw great stock market gains in 2024. Meanwhile, Europe has flatlined. One reason for this success: America innovates while Europe regulates.
STEPHEN MOORE: Europe Takes A Bite Out Of America’s Apple

Jan 14, 2025 | dailycaller.com | Stephen Moore

Envy is an ugly thing — one of the seven deadly sins. The Europeans have long been dripping with jealousy that American firms dominate the tech sector — cell phones, search engines, social media platforms, AI and robotics. As a consequence, the U.S. economy as measured by net worth is now 50 percent larger than Europe’s and even the residents of our poorest states like West Virginia have a higher income than the average European.
The Year In Bad Tech

Dec 3, 2024 | stephenmoore.medium.com | Stephen Moore

Our tech overlords continue to destroy legacy tech and throw a torrent of new technologies at usStephen Moore·Follow7 min read·--Image: Badly edited by authorIn the relentless pursuit of making the world a better place (read: making shitloads of money, normally at our expense), our tech overlords continue to destroy legacy tech and throw a torrent of new technologies at us. This year might be the most overwhelming yet.
The Rise and Fall of ‘Disemvoweling’

Nov 9, 2024 | bettermarketing.pub | Stephen Moore

From creating new words like “Kodak,” forcing words together like “Facebook,” or intentionally misspelling phrases like “Krispy Kreme,” companies have a long history of picking phonetically fabricated — and occasionally nonsensical — brand names. For the past two decades, one particularly popular business trend was for companies to drop vowels from their names; if you glanced at a list of tech firms circa the early 2000s, you might be forgiven for assuming the humble vowel was going extinct.
Zuckerberg is a Glasshole

Oct 24, 2024 | stephenmoore.medium.com | Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore·Follow5 min read·--Image: Badly edited by authorMark Zuckerberg, the genius who envisioned there would be one billion people in the Metaverse — he only got that wrong by a billion and nearly blew up his company in the process — is now bullish on wearable glasses. More specifically, he’s excited by a new wearables prototype built by his company, called Orion, that was released into a select few hands this week.
A Bloodbath In The Arena

Oct 7, 2024 | stephenmoore.medium.com | Stephen Moore

MKBHD risks it all for the sake of a $50-a-year wallpaper appStephen Moore·Follow5 min read·--Image: Badly edited by authorTheodore Roosevelt once famously said,“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.