Curio | December 20, 2025

On This Day | A Case for Color

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Author

Josh Wolsky

If your motorcar was stolen, Mr. Motorist, could you describe it in such a way that the police could readily recognize it if they saw it? There are thousands of black cars and yellow cars, cars with nicks in them and cars with fenders bent. It is out of these many cars which so closely resemble each other that the police have to pick the stolen one.
1917-12-20 | Ward County Independent

Why We Chose It

The early days of a new industry expose a lot problems that need to get worked out, and there may be a metaphor to learn from as our own era navigates the wildly disruptive emergence of AI. Rest assured, at some point the future we'll have solutions to all the "if" and "could" articles you're reading today. And that's not saying we'll be better for them, I'm just saying they'll exist.