
Happy New Year. In 2036, ten years from now, I will turn 65. By then, I hope to be stepping aside rather than stepping down, less bound by day-to-day obligations, with greater freedom and flexibility, yet still engaged where it counts: thinking, writing, questioning and contributing when it adds value. That prospective distance prompts a useful thought experiment: what, right now, is within the industry’s power to change and what isn’t?
I don’t believe South African wine is headed for dramatic collapse, but neither is it set for triumph. Rather, we are at a hinge moment. The direction of travel is not yet fixed, but the constraints are brutally clear.
Artificial Intelligence: AI is being used in newsrooms for tasks such as content
curation, audience analysis, and even writing basic news articles.

Sunvolt
The wonder of a man with a running stomach is that he knows the direction of the door without anybody’s guidance.
RedFeet
Which unit describes the intensity of light in South Africa? Nelson Candela