BURNING CHROME | AI’s Southeast Asia boom is real—but it’s not evenly built
The numbers look decisive. Adoption is accelerating. Productivity gains are measurable. Economic upside is being quantified in the hundreds of...
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BURNING CHROME | AI adoption is rising—but so is the divide
AI is spreading, but the spread is misleading. By the second half of 2025, about one in six people globally...
BURNING CHROME | TechSabado: The evolution continues
Ten years is a long time in technology. In the lifespan of the internet, it is practically a geological epoch....
BURNING CHROME | Hi-res audio and the tyranny of numbers. Higher numbers
I fell for it—hard. The numbers were seductive: 24-bit, 96 kHz, 192 kHz. Bigger files. Bigger promises. A quiet insinuation...
BURNING CHROME | Linux: The operating system that refused to behave
Linux was never meant to be friendly. It was meant to be honest. That distinction explains almost everything about why...
BURNING CHROME | AI didn’t kill the job. Governance did
There is a comforting lie embedded in every corporate slide deck about artificial intelligence: that job disruption is a future...
BURNING CHROME | Mac vs. PC: The war that shaped computing — and why it no longer matters
For decades, “Mac vs. PC” functioned as a cultural shortcut. You didn’t have to explain who you were; your computer...
BURNING CHROME | Analog vs. digital audio: The war that refuses to die
The analog-versus-digital audio debate refuses to die because it was never really about sound. It is about trust—trust in machines,...
BY-LINER | Lirio in performance: A portrait of the Filipino as cyborg
The text below is a slight emendation of an article I wrote in the now defunct online news outlet InterAksyon....
BURNING CHROME | Music deconstruction through technology
NOTE: This article first appeared in the July 31, 2006, issue of Tech Times, the infotech section of The Manila...