by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
On the flight back from the book launch in Portugal in late 2025, I found myself unable to stop thinking about the size of a book. Not its length — its physical dimensions. During finalization, Jeff Abbott and I had printed mockups in different sizes, and there...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
In 2020, I published a book about the future. Not about AI specifically — about our relationship with the future itself. Sixty short essays tracing a thread from the Big Bang through evolution, intelligence, creativity, innovation, hubris, and responsibility. I...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
In the fall of 2023, I asked my undergraduate students at Arizona State University what they thought about ChatGPT. I expected widespread adoption. What I got was closer to a collective shrug. Only about a third of them used it regularly. One student put it plainly:...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
At a conference in Berlin in late 2025, I asked the audience a question that was meant to be a little playful, and to provoke discussion rather than make a definitive point: Is AI a cognitive Trojan Horse? The responses were polite, curious, a little uncertain. But...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 8, 2026 | Blog
Most accounts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution begin in January 2016, when Klaus Schwab published his book of the same name and the World Economic Forum made “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution” the theme of its Davos annual meeting. Or maybe a...
