Dane Scott, "THD" (Doctor of Thinkology)
Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011—one day after unveiling Siri to the world. It was his final product vision, meant to revolutionize human-computer interaction. Fourteen years later, Siri still can't set two timers. Would the perfectionist who obsessed over every detail be furious at what his voice assistant has become?
I asked Pi AI if I could have natural conversations through my Apple Watch. It confidently said yes. I bought the watch. Pi was wrong. The dream of raising your wrist and chatting with intelligent AI remains frustratingly out of reach—but Apple's 2026 Siri overhaul might finally deliver what we thought we were buying all along.
After 14 years of embarrassing failures, Siri is getting a brain transplant—powered by Google's Gemini AI. Apple will pay $1 billion per year for an 8x more powerful model, promising context-aware conversations and multi-app wizardry. But here's the twist: it's only temporary while Apple races to build their own competitive AI, potentially by late 2026.
Discover why AI chatbots confidently cite fake legal cases, invent medical studies that never existed, and generate entirely fictional "facts" with the same authoritative tone they use for truth—and what's being done to teach machines the most human phrase of all: "I don't know."
Discover the reasons why hyper-personalized AI coaches and ubiquitous bio-monitoring will make achieving future New Year’s resolutions much easier—but potentially strip away your sense of personal agency and effort.
Ozempic and Wegovy are changing bodies at Hollywood speed. Smart scales measure everything from bone density to cardiovascular health. AI coaches know when you'll skip the gym before you do. Weight loss technology has never been more effective—or more expensive, potentially obsessive, and socially divisive. Welcome to the era of the optimized body.
Music that reads your brainwaves and composes itself in real-time. Virtual concerts on Mars. AI flooding streaming platforms with billions of tracks. The future of music is arriving fast, bringing both incredible creative possibilities and serious questions about authenticity, artistry, and what we might lose when algorithms start writing our soundtracks.
Find out how air taxis are beating urban congestion by using floating vertiports on water. Discover the engineering solution to the infrastructure bottleneck and see how passengers get to land using high-speed feeder vessels and gangways.
From digital wish lists to energy-efficient lights, Christmas has seen a tech makeover. But have the core reasons we celebrate changed at all? Find out about the enduring human constants—faith, belief, and tradition—that persist despite every technological leap, proving some things will remain essential.
This time, we step back into the world of 1954's sci-fi vision from Science and Invention magazine, featuring "teledactyl" robotic arms and TV screens, which accurately predicted today's telemedicine. Find out about the past, assess the present, and see why AI and tele-robotics are the next logical evolution in virtual care, finally fully realizing the dream of the 'Teledoctor.'