{"id":243266,"date":"2026-08-27T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-year-ago-i-walked-onto-a-stage-in-st"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:25","slug":"a-year-ago-i-walked-onto-a-stage-in-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-year-ago-i-walked-onto-a-stage-in-st","title":{"rendered":"A year ago, I walked onto a stage in St"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-year-ago-i-walked-onto-a-stage-in-st.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/2176644681-singularity1on1-nikola-danaylov-keynote-at-st-johns-circus-fest.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s, Newfoundland, and told a room full of circus artists they were not entertainers.<\/p>\n<p>They were context creators.<\/p>\n<p>The argument goes like this. Content is now infinite. AI can produce more of it in a second than you could consume in a lifetime. So content is not king anymore. It is a commodity, and commodities get cheap.<\/p>\n<p>What stays expensive is meaning. And meaning does not live inside the content. It lives in the frame around it.<\/p>\n<p>Change the context, and you change the story. Change the story, and you change the future.<\/p>\n<p>In this keynote, I make the case for #STEAM over #STEM, for why technology is the How and never the Why, and for why the circus tent is the most honest metaphor we have for the age of #AI: risk, awe, vulnerability, transformation, and a safety net that may or may not be there when you let go of the bar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-year-ago-i-walked-onto-a-stage-in-st\">Continue reading \u201cA year ago, I walked onto a stage in St\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John\u2019s, Newfoundland, and told a room full of circus artists they were not entertainers. They were context creators. The argument goes like this. Content is now infinite. AI can produce more of it in a second than you could consume in a lifetime. So content is not king anymore. It is a commodity, and commodities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}