Every Audio Essays

Every Audio Essays episodes:

• 05.10.2024

  ChatGPT Is Changing Our Understanding of the Human Intellect

  ChatGPT is changing what it means to feel uniquely human. Large language models have the ability to mimic human creativity and spout human knowledge at record speeds—and they’re getting more powerful by the day. But while this technology might seem...

  
• 04.12.2024

  She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home

  Lore Harp McGovern was one of the most influential women in the history of computing, but her story, and her company, haven’t been given their due. Harp McGovern spurned the life of a housewife and built a multimillion-dollar personal computer...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Ads in the Age of AI

  Ads subsidize our entire information ecosystem, keeping content free and accessible for everyone. AI may change all that by reducing both the amount of ads being served and the amount of time that people spend browsing—a one-two punch that will...

  
• 03.04.2024

  The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival

  In the early 1980s, two rivals waged a public war for the soul of home computing: Adam Osborne and Steve Jobs. Yet only Steve Jobs is remembered today. This is the forgotten story of the Osborne 1, the world's first...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Reddit: The Internet’s Bellwether

  Reddit is a special place on the internet that happens to be a mediocre business. However, its recent S-1 document revealed something interesting: It could potentially build a business licensing user data to AI companies. Is this the future, or...

  
• 02.23.2024

  AI and the Vision Pro Don’t Need a Killer App

  Everyone is hunting for the killer app—software so good that it justifies the purchase of new hardware. But the new tech platforms of AI and virtual reality may not even need a killer app. This isn’t a matter of semantics:...

  
• 02.15.2024

  Autonomous Vehicles Have a Problem of Narrative

  Last weekend, a crowd of revelers in San Francisco’s Chinatown burned an autonomous vehicle from Waymo down to its frame. Tech is now the fifth least-trusted industry in America, having experienced a rapid loss in confidence by the American public...

  
• 02.10.2024

  Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

  Chris Dixon, the patron saint of crypto, is still preaching the gospel. In this essay, Every lead writer Evan Armstrong deconstructs Dixon’s new book, Read Write Own, in which the venture capitalist proffers his still-faithful argument for how crypto and...

  
• 01.29.2024

  The Zone of Deployment: How Can You Know When to Invest?

  Investing is easy. Investing wisely—well, not so much.  In this essay, Every lead writer Evan Armstrong helps you wade through the morass of hyped-up startups in your journey to invest in companies that are actually good businesses. Consider three things...

  
• 01.24.2024

  The Secret Father of Modern Computing

  In September 1974, Ed Roberts was $250,000 in the hole from a calculator business and begging the bank for a $65,000 loan. This money wasn’t going to calculators, but to something altogether different—an affordable personal computer. The price? $400.  The...

  
• 12.08.2023

  How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)

  AI is both overhyped and underutilized. Every’s lead writer Evan Armstrong believes that we have crossed the AI rubicon, estimating that the technology has spurred a 20 percent productivity gain for him in just the past few months. In this...