About

I'm Michael Harries. I've spent thirty years at the intersection of technology and strategy: AI research before it was fashionable, enterprise software, corporate venture and acceleration, product strategy, startups on both sides of the table, and since 2017 early-stage venture capital as a Partner at The Robotics Hub, focused on physical AI and robotics.

The future isn't arriving. It's being constructed, right now, by specific people making specific decisions with specific incentives. Most of them aren't asking who lives with the consequences.

I'm neither a technology optimist nor a doomer. Both positions are ways of avoiding that question. I've spent enough time building things, funding things, and watching things go wrong to think the question matters enormously and gets serious attention rarely.

The people deciding which technologies get built, and toward what ends, are making consequential choices whether they frame it that way or not. I try to frame it that way.

Technoist moves between the philosophical and the operational because the gap between those registers is itself part of the problem. Ultimately these are all exploring the question of what happens when consequential decisions are made inside the wrong frame.