Nicholas Thompson’s regular posts on The Most Interesting Thing in Tech are informative, timely and enjoyable. However, sometimes the most interesting thing isn’t the tech, but the humans around it. Generative AI is everywhere and has an enormous impact on the arts. Recently, Canadian electronic superstar artist Grimes announced that she is willing to work …
The AI Revolution is here. How we can adapt our nervous systems to deal with the pace and scope of the changes around us? Charlie Warzel’s Galaxy Brain newsletter from The Atlantic is among the best venues for insights into the cultural issues associated with technology. Warzel’s astute observations and commentary on not just what …
Meta’s Chief Scientist has provided us with a case study that both perpetuates and exposes many myths about innovation. It was the headline that grabbed me: “ChatGPT is ‘not particularly innovative,’ and ‘nothing revolutionary’, says Meta’s chief AI scientist” It came through Refind (a great service if you’ve never heard of it), which recommends articles …
Disruption is often described in abstract terms with time horizons that look long enough to act on. What we see now is far different from that — faster and more intense. You might have had relatively few ideas of what artificial intelligence looked like until last week. That was when the news of ChatGPT made …
Our massive push toward more immersive online experiences, space travel, and connected social worlds seem even more divorced from reality when we consider what’s happening in the physical world. Maybe that is the point. When things come in threes I take notice. This is not for any superstitious reasons and more because it points to …
The manner in which we set up conferences online can make a big difference for what we get from them. In my last post I profiled four conferences that were held within the last two weeks of October, 2020 providing a point of comparison for helping understand what works and what can support learning, collaboration, …
Remote working tools for collaboration can shape our culture of innovation or we can shape the tools themselves, the choice is ours, by design.
Transformations are easier to understand retrospectively, not in real time. New technologies are about to upend that, forever. It is often difficult to fully appreciate transformation in the middle of it. Most of us might have been ‘wowed’ by the Internet when it came out, but it’s only looking back that we realized how much …
Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things? It’s back to school time in many parts of the world and with it a return to a different pace of life. Throughout history we’ve not had many models of structured, intentional learning. Until the …
Three numbers tell a story of transformation worth listening to. Our world is changing quickly and this week three numbers came to mind to show just how fast that’s happening and why we need to pay attention if we want to play a role is shaping this transformation. These numbers all point to a need …
