Type a short phrase into Eric Lu's webpage and press generate. The screen fills with what looks like television static from 1994 — thousands of black and white dots in quiet agitation. Stare for a second and your brain does something the best-funded AI models on earth failed to do this week: it notices that some of the dots are travelling together, and a word rises out of the noise .Pause the video and the word vanishes. Screenshot it and you own a frame of pure grain. The message exists only in motion, and only for a viewer who can perceive motion the way humans do — automatically, instantly, without being asked.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
