Technology

Plain-language guides to AI and emerging technology: what it is, how it works and why it matters.

August 2026

  1. An AI host coordinates three separate MCP paths to calendar, notes and booking capabilities.
    11 min readTechnology

    Connect the robot to its tools, with MCP

    MCP gives AI applications a shared protocol for tools and data. Follow one request through a host, client and server, including a server that calls an API.

  2. A travel planner sends an orange request across a bridge to a weather service and receives rain data in return.
    17 min readTechnology

    How APIs make separate apps feel like one

    An API gives software an agreed way to request data or actions. Follow a Sydney trip through GET, POST, permissions, status codes and failure.

  3. A small figure follows an orange path through a series of thresholds towards a distant handover.
    11 min readTechnology

    What we hand over to an AI agent

    What is an AI agent? A plain guide to the model, tools, runtime, permissions and handover that carry work across more than one step.

January 2026

  1. Three different vehicles wait at the start of three roads leading through the same landscape.
    3 min readTechnology

    Which AI model you should actually pay for

    A Corolla, a Porsche and a Range Rover. A practical way to choose between AI tools, plus where the analogy breaks and how to test them on your own work.