The Internet’s Aperture Is Shrinking

About this episode

Matt Maher joins Phillip and Brian to discuss the implications of AI on business productivity and the evolving landscape of commerce.

Matt Maher, founder of M7 Innovations and the thirty-fifth member of the MIT Media Lab Consortium, joins Phillip and Brian to interrogate what really happens when enterprises leap from "zero to one" to "one to a hundred" with AI. The conversation moves from the productivity paradox (studies showing AI can add 20% to completion time even as users swear it saves them work) to the human hand-off in commerce, the limits of agentic shopping, and the shrinking aperture of the internet. The big takeaway is that 2026 is the year of assessment, not aspiration.

People in this episode

Hosts: Phillip Jackson, Brian Lange

Guest: Matt Maher

Topics covered

• AI in business
• productivity paradox
• agentic shopping
• internet trends
• commerce

Keywords

• AI
• productivity paradox
• M7 Innovations
• MIT Media Lab
• commerce
• agentic shopping
• 2026

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: M7 Innovations, MIT Media Lab Consortium

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