Roel Smelt
Exploring what technology does to us — and then trying it out.

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12
May
The Coming Literacy Crisis Is Not About Reading. It Is About Asking.

The Coming Literacy Crisis Is Not About Reading. It Is About Asking.

In an age of artificial oracles, the decisive human skill is no longer access to answers. It is learning how to ask questions that make answers matter.
4 min read
09
May
The Worldview That Made Us Powerful Also Made Us Replaceable

The Worldview That Made Us Powerful Also Made Us Replaceable

Modernity made the world measurable and gave us AI. But if humans are only information processors inside that measurable world, AI becomes the better processor. The hopeful turn is consciousness.
5 min read
04
May
The Taste Gap: Why AI Makes Discernment the New Superpower

The Taste Gap: Why AI Makes Discernment the New Superpower

AI makes execution abundant. The scarce human capacity is no longer output, but discernment: the taste to know what is true, coherent, beautiful, and worth bringing into the world.
7 min read
29
Apr
The First Artificial Oracle

The First Artificial Oracle

Why truth, curiosity, and beauty may be the only defense against obedient AI.
9 min read
23
Apr
What Mainstream Media Keeps Missing

What Mainstream Media Keeps Missing

Mainstream media keeps misreading technological change because it judges visible polish instead of underlying architecture. In robotaxis, that means mistaking local competence for scalable intelligence — and missing the systems that may actually reshape civilization.
7 min read
22
Apr
AI Is a New Literacy

AI Is a New Literacy

AI is not just a tool. It is a new literacy — one that expands human creativity, compresses the distance between imagination and execution, and changes who gets to build.
7 min read
15
Apr
The Rise of the Agents

The Rise of the Agents

The Rise of the Agents TL;DR Pioneers like Peter Steinberger’s OpenClaw have shown us the truth: AI agents
2 min read
04
Apr
Hierarchy dissolving into intelligence — people connected by glowing network nodes inside a Roman amphitheater

From Hierarchy to Intelligence — AI4 Accountancy as a Laboratory

Jack Dorsey says hierarchy exists to route information. AI can do that now. Here's what that looks like from the inside — from my parents' shop to Sociocracy, Booking.com, and a WhatsApp group building accounting software without a single developer.
6 min read
01
Apr
A silhouette wearing a dissolving spacetime headset, with pure consciousness light beyond

The Headset We Forgot We're Wearing

Two things are happening right now that almost nobody has connected. First: AGI is arriving faster than the conversation about
7 min read
25
Mar
AI labeling legislation — the new cookie banner

The AI Label Is the New Cookie Banner

We're about to make the same mistake we made with cookie banners. The EU wants to label AI-generated content. It sounds reasonable. It's the wrong solution to the right problem.
3 min read