About

How do we stay mindful in our relationship with technology that increasingly speaks back?

For 35+ years I've worked as a technology journalist, translating how complex systems actually work into language people can use. My current beats sit at the boundary where machine intelligence meets human attention, judgment, and trust: enterprise AI, agentic systems, content provenance, digital sovereignty, and AI governance.

I write regularly for InformaTechTarget and Diginomica, and produce peer-reviewed research and named-author white papers for organizations working at the frontier of these questions.

In parallel, I've spent decades in contemplative practice, exploring what it takes to remain present and discerning. That's not a sideline. As AI gets better at producing fluent, plausible output, the human capacity to notice what's actually true and worth attending to becomes both a competitive and a civic asset.

I'm also open to a different kind of conversation. Some of the most interesting work right now is happening at companies rethinking how humans and machines meet: voice interfaces, spatial computing and smart glasses, agentic AI, new ways of working. If you're building in any of these areas, I'd be glad to talk about long-form, curious-outsider engagement that helps an emerging category find its language. Writing, feedback, the view from someone who keeps the editorial separation that makes the perspective worth having. Close to the work, never inside the marketing.

Recent work appears at InformaTechTarget, Diginomica, and the full archive lives at Muck Rack.

Recent work:
InformaTechTarget — techtarget.com/contributor/George-Lawton
Diginomica — diginomica.com/author/george-lawton
Full archive — muckrack.com/george-lawton