Digital Insights

Plain-language takes on AI and the digital world, written for the people who actually have to live with them: business owners, parents and anyone who votes. Hey/I is the running series, one episode at a time. Every number is sourced, every opinion is flagged as one, and nothing here is written to sell you a tool.

Digital Insights

Humanoid robot cashier counting bills at a store register, the real cost of AI in Hey I Episode 2 on Beep Digital

September 21, 2026

AI Is Free. Until It Isn’t.

AI is free until it isn’t. Hey/I Episode 2 follows the real bill: the ladder from free to Pro to credits to tokens, the software and hardware you pay for without an AI line on the statement, and why finite power and chips mean the price only goes one way.

September 21, 2026

AI Is Free. Until It Isn’t.

Six riders in national colours line up at the start of the AI race, Hey/I Episode 1 on Beep Digital

September 18, 2026

The AI Race Will Not Be Won by the Best Chatbot

The chatbot room is taken by the United States and China. The other five rooms of AI are up for grabs. Hey/I Episode 1 tours them: robots, chips, factories, trucks and labs, country by country, Canada included.

From ape to AI: the evolution of intelligence on the cover of Hey/I Episode 0 by Beep Digital

September 14, 2026

What AI Was, Is, and Is Becoming

Seventy years of nothing much, then everything at once. The foundation piece for Hey/I: what AI was, what it actually is right now, and what it is becoming. Fact-checked, with sources, and a human take.

September 18, 2026

The AI Race Will Not Be Won by the Best Chatbot

September 14, 2026