Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, restored by Tesla shareholders after court challenges, made global headlines. But beneath the spectacle lies a deeper design flaw: the hero economy. In worshipping visionaries, capitalism has built cathedrals without conscience.
Agentic AI marks a new epoch of technology — not systems that answer, but systems that act. The emergence of autonomous intention will redefine work, ethics, governance, and even the architecture of thought itself.
AI is becoming the ultimate political weapon — not through violence, but through persuasion. As synthetic media blurs truth, democracy faces a new cold war: one fought through algorithms, attention, and belief.
Apple just fused silicon, sensors, and software into a tighter ecosystem. Phones get thinner yet tougher, watches detect hidden health risks, and earbuds double as discreet fitness instruments.
The digital landscape isn’t static. While most businesses proudly cling to the same three-year-old “conversion playbook,” the actual battlefield has moved. Algorithms change. Consumer psychology shifts. Competitors experiment. And quietly, a handful of players are rewriting the rules while everyone else sleeps.
Every click, scroll, and pause you make is teaching a machine what stories to serve you—and which ones to bury. The result? Your version of reality isn’t the truth. It’s the feed.
