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Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions
Future of Journalism Meta-Trends
At the end of 2025 I decided to crawl 14 years1 of NiemanLab predictions with the goal of looking for long-term patterns of how the future discourse has changed over the years.2 About 1.862 articles, written by 799 authors with a total length of 1.860.157 words. I heavily used Anthropic’s Claude and Visual Studio Code for building the crawlers, and writing python scripts for my analysis and…
Journalism is in danger of bending itself around AI
I explored a dead AI mega-facility
✦✧ [0:00] Camera turns on, showing a rusted chain-link fence in the light of a flashlight. Dawn is visible on the horizon.
What if the future doesn‘t matter?
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg showed off a new iteration of Meta’s “smart glasses.” The fact that the live demos ran into all sorts of technical problems isn’t even the most interesting part of the whole thing. Personally, I find smart glasses as a product category totally boring — but that’s not really what I want to write about here.
Sparkling capital reallocation
I really dislike the term “technological revolution”. And with that I mean I loathe it. It‘s a cliché. It stops me from continuing to read whatever was written around it. It reeks of MBA, LinkedIn posts, and yet-another-startup-pitch-on-stage.
Die Jagd nach dem neuesten KI-Gadget hilft uns nicht weiter
The Echo Chamber Talks
✦✧ Sarah‘s coffee was still steaming when her phone buzzed with the NewsBot morning briefing. Three months ago, she‘d downloaded it on a whim after yet another frustrating morning scrolling through endless headlines that all seemed to blur together. Now? She couldn‘t imagine starting her day any other way.
Tips for analysing Hype
Never take claims at face value Predictions are, at best, a well-informed opinion and, at worst, wild speculation. Never trust the hype, thought leadership and PR-speak. Look for limitations Every technology has its limits. Look for points of failure, mistakes or breakage. These will give you a good idea of a technology’s realistic potential and where future progress might lead. Check the…