Pawel Halicki

When you use AI to think, you become unstoppable.

When you outsource thinking to AI, you become artificially incompetent.

These flowers pay for my parking - Thanks for stopping by. I'm still not sure why I had those soil sensors shipped to your house. - Force of habit? He smirks. - You wish. - You can order cool stuff to my place anytime. Thanks for the...

Once gardens begin to be planted with biosensors alongside seeds, we won't become less connected to nature, we will learn to listen to nature in entirely new ways.

Who morphed my armchair? The next section of the city’s biggest furniturals store is dotted with perpetually flipping signs. 87% more living space with multi-state furniture. The bistables showroom buzzes with people trying o...

The more responsive our environments become, the less attached we may feel to them.

When everything can become anything, perhaps nothing remains truly irreplaceable.

Our AI got promoted The capsule offers her usual presets. She selects the Vintage Café workspace. It makes sense as she has already grabbed her coffee. The door closes, and the soundproofing shields her from the airport ...

Healthy systems minimise irreversible regret and maximise reversible trials.

When output is cheap, default to deletion.

Space creates discovery.

We are aliens to our ancestors, using magic to live unfathomable lives.

Where will we keep our robot? After the third poke, she finally pulls off her headset and glares at him across the couch. - Hmm? - Have you seen those new humanoid household robots I sent you? - Not yet. Why are you asking? - I wo...

The biggest challenge of home robotics is not engineering but living space affordability.

Where will personal robots go when an average urban apartment barely fits the people living there?

The future can take a long time

The future is predictable only if you stop taking action.

Your supply chain says no The morning shift supervisors watch the predictable dance of industrial automation. Most mornings, the show directs itself. This is not most mornings.

The more emergence outruns engineering, the more leadership will shift from commanding systems to studying their discoveries, and finding the courage to follow.

Can you print us more time? The screen flickers irritably as the testing AI struggles again to inject the data. His eyes narrow. Hundreds of thousands of micro-tension sensors embedded in the fresh concrete refuse to respond, le...

We’re approaching a future where materials are engineered to sense their own condition, diagnostics predict failures, and solutions print themselves on demand.

Sorry, the store is reloading now The entrance sensors recognise the day’s first customer, transitioning the store’s ambient lighting to a cheery morning mode. - Good morning, sweetheart. How are you doing today? - Good morning. Shall...

Evolution's true success isn't just surviving.

It's when your species' biggest survival challenge becomes decision paralysis about dinner.

From hunting prey in cold woods to browsing meal sets arranged by time of day and effort required.

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Thanks for virtualising this for us The teacher's room is so organised and tidy that she would definitely mistake it for autodécor if they were on a call. Behind the glass privatised for her meeting, the busy school buzzes with students...

As AI remakes our world, can it flatten our learning curves so we can keep up?

When knowledge updates overnight, unlearning might become our most important skill.

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AI as a second brain makes you superhuman.

AI as your only brain makes you a digital puppet.

Augment your mind. Don't replace it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Don’t predict the future. Rehearse it. Every organisation has a strategy department. None has an imagination department. And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. While plans fail and pred...

Every organisation has a strategy department.

None has an imagination department.

And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. Plans fail. Predictions expire. Envisioning alternatives adapts.

Start narrative microdosing with futures you can try on.

AI exclusion will be much faster and more impactful than digital exclusion ever was.

Ping me when the walls are transparent The calming white noise of a gentle blizzard smoothly takes over the break room. Display-wrapped walls ripple when his settings override the default ambient forest. He joins the optics lead, who's alr...

Tomorrow's breakthroughs hide in today's resistance.

Innovation's true overhead isn't technology but organisational friction.

AI transforms the decades-old “build or buy” into “train or refine”.

The data stack is the tech stack of the future.

Tomorrow's competitive edges won't be built but trained.

Your voice needs a security update The break room is busy with soft overlays, and system feeds ghosting across every surface as if the air itself was recording. - Your voice needs a security update. You’re basically the infrastructure ...

In a world of endless updates, the only real growth is rediscovery and the courage to start again.

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Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.

Your context is late The team lead strides into the project bay, alive with context streams pulsing across every screen like shifting weather maps of an alien planets. - Your context is late. What’s happening? Her fingers...

In a paradigm shift, urgency is a valid strategy, yet late and excellent beats first and fragile. Time can be renegotiated. Trust cannot.

These plants go gold for laughs and deep red for nostalgia Setting down the gift-wrapped planter on the workbench, he nods at his colleague. The chromaphonic blooms shift to amber, already responding to the electromagnetic purr of the workshop’s diagnostic fr...

Market leaders of tomorrow
won't just know what customers want, they'll know how customers want to feel, and when exactly they need to feel it.

Can you authenticate summer? Puffy evening clouds drift through the last shades of summer. She’s tagging the fluffiest ones for her setup. Her daughter burrows deeper under the blanket on the other chair. - Since you opened the t...

Living with AI means adapting to a world where scarcity changes into abundance. In a future of infinite replication,
the real value comes from the context only you can provide.

Imagination is time travel within our price range.

Your voice needs a security update The break room is busy with soft overlays, and system feeds ghosting across every surface as if the air itself was recording. - Your voice needs a security update. You’re basically the infrastructure ...

In a world of endless updates, the only real growth is rediscovery and the courage to start again.

I layered you over my stream The venue is packed with fans and shimmering with energy. All around them, holos stretch and warp across the crowd, advertising drinks, merch, or rippling arrows to show the way. His haptic suit shift...

Every shared first is a shortcut to futures we can't reach alone.

Step into the unknown together, and those futures will render in no time.

Imagination is time travel within our price range.