Writing
Selected writing on AI, emerging technology, and the future.
Memia mind expanding
Thinking more broadly about AI, accelerating technology and the future of humanity.
June 9, 2026
Anatomy of an AI agent (mid-2026 edition)
Models, tokens, harnesses, agents, skills, tools - making sense of a dynamic vocabulary.
April 2, 2026
The Intelligent Interstitium: What Lies Between
An exploration of the connective layer between human minds, tracing how communication media have evolved from passive channels into increasingly agentic systems that now participate in thought itself.
March 9, 2026
Changing Paradigms: From AI Situational Awareness to Agency
An essay on the shift from merely understanding AI's trajectory to grappling with AI systems that can increasingly act, decide, and shape outcomes across organisations and society.
January 26, 2026
Four Modes of Enterprise AI Investment: Adapt | Augment | Automate | Transform
A practical framework for enterprise AI portfolios, mapping how organisations can balance adaptation, augmentation, automation, and transformation across different strategic goals.
July 26, 2025
20 Fundamental Questions Shaping AI's Future
A strategic set of open questions intended to sharpen how leaders, investors, and organisations think about AI's longer-term trajectory, uncertainties, and emerging bets.
October 26, 2024
Symbiotic Extropianism: /acc
An attempt to reconcile techno-accelerationist extropianism with ecological preservation, proposing a more symbiotic philosophy for intelligence, progress, and the living world.
Memia Annual Roundups
Comprehensive yearly summaries synthesising major themes from the previous 12 months of technological development and global change.
Memia year in review 2024: counting the OOMs to Foom 🧮📈🤯
December 23, 2024
Entering the new 'AI-ocene' planetary epoch
December 19, 2023
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December 20, 2022
Top 10 themes from a year of living with constant uncertainty
December 21, 2021
Top 10 themes from a year of tumultuous change
December 22, 2020
Fast Forward Aotearoa
Memia founder Ben Reid's 2024 600-page book explores how exponential technology is defining the future of New Zealand... and strategic responses to ensure retained sovereignty
Featuring stunning illustrations imagining the future of Aotearoa by Sam Ragnarsson ^ AI.
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Memia Blog Archive
Dive into the full archive of Memia's original WordPress-era writing (2008-2021), preserved at the original permalinks.
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