As is my tradition I do my annual bingo card at the start of the new year to deal with my existential dread. Herewith my 2026 bingo card. I’ll be doing a wrap up on my 2025 BingoCard shortly.
Etsy witches, AI, & young people quietly returning to the Catholic Church might look unrelated, but they all signal a crisis of trust in institutions.
Etsy witches, constitutional AI, and rising geopolitical risk are all symptoms of the same restless zeitgeist.
Australia’s lack of serious, at‑scale compute is not just a research productivity problem, it is a sovereignty problem as well. Our universities are trying to do world‑class work on infrastructure that simply does not match the ambitions in our national AI strategies or data sovereignty rhetoric.
AI is no longer just a clever feature bolted onto apps - it’s fast becoming a core piece of digital infrastructure, as fundamental as electricity, networks and cloud.