For decades, the personal computer stood as the ultimate symbol of individual agency. Steve Jobs famously called it a "bicycle for the mind" a tool that empowered the individual to go further and faster than their natural abilities allowed. But today, that bicycle is being dismantled for parts. What...
One might recall, with a suitable amount of dramatic flair, a recent dispatch from the estimable MIT Technology Review. Their piece, "How to run an LLM on your laptop," opened with the rather tantalising hypothetical of an impending societal unravelling. Picture it: you, a USB stick, and the profoun...
