Category: <span>Voices</span>

ChatGPT ads went live for South African users this week. TDMC (The Digital Media Collective) Media Director Caleb Shepard looks at what this means for local brands and warns that most will waste their first rand on them. He shares three key insights for local e-commerce businesses as the shopfront moves inside the chatbot. Since...

The wine business needs to wake up. There’s such a ludicrous delusion in the wine world of what the fuck is going on with human beings. Period. It’s to the point where, and this is why I’m posting wine content right now, me giving 0.01% effort can have a bigger impact than 99% of what’s...

Someone recently asked me how we move from being A.I literate to A.I enabled to becoming A.I first, and I appreciated the distinction because each stage changes our relationship with work itself. Think of it as 100, 200 and 300 levels, where progress comes through experience, experimentation and the willingness to rethink habits that once served...

France will not recover; this is the end. The nation has lost the cultural war. The demographic structure has shifted forever. People who find it easy to spray graffiti on the magnificent architecture of French cities and burn Paris are the new French people. All class and decorum are gone. Arrivals from failed third-world states...

AI has widened the definition of input and increased the speed at which a bad result can spread, says Wayne Yan, CTO at Dariel. The way forward is a deliberate programme of modernisation built on sound architectural principles, with people responsible for the thinking. Data-driven decision-making rests on a reasonable premise: better data leads to...

We’ve somehow learned to confuse worry with care, as though the amount of anxiety we feel about someone is evidence of how deeply we love them. A parent worries about a child, a leader worries about their team, we worry about our partners, our friends, our families, and because the intention underneath it may be...

The main way a war between the United States and Iran affects the cost of living across the World, now Europe too is feeling the heat through oil, gas, electricity, transport and food prices. Italy, France and Berlin (Germany) all affected, but not necessarily to the same extent. The key issue is whether the conflict...

South African brands have been handed a reprieve in the United States, but not certainty. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the US trade programme that has given eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the American market since 2000, has been extended to 2028. That is well short of the 15 years South...

There is a man in America who is so wise, so profoundly brilliant, that history will one day look back at him as an absolute genius. If you are an African who grew up watching Hollywood legacy broadcasts and consuming mainstream Western media, you definitely don’t know him. For the most part of my life,...

We are living in the most advanced moment in human history, and some of our systems haven’t read the memo yet. A rocket can land itself back on a floating platform. Somewhere in the world, renewing a passport still means a paper form and a long queue. A.I can pass a law exam in an...