We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely —E.O. Wilson
The internet has been the catalyst for the disruption of traditional models, paving the way for an exciting future. We can observe remarkable changes as the world moves towards greater diversity at lower prices, allowing individuals to access new tools for creating, acquiring, and distributing. In this rapidly evolving landscape, it’s increasingly clear that community and collaboration are more important than ever.
Stage Three in the Education Revolution Has Arrived
The Internet now threatens to smash the state’s monopoly of education. The classroom model is now being undermined by new technologies. What parents have at their disposal today is technology that will enable them — mainly mothers — to become effective tutors. Soon, there will also be teachers who sell their services to hundreds of families at low prices, using electronic grading to do their grunt work, and hiring teaching assistants to do the grading on more personalized examinations and term papers.
Gary North in Specific Answers | 8 Minutes
Productivity
We have reached a point where not moving beyond the point of basic digital technology is damaging. The old paradigm has been explored to its highest potential. That highest potential has become commonplace. The future is exponentially more exciting and productive if you embrace it. Transformation isn’t rocket science, but it is complex. It is clear where productivity will come from and it is not the same ideas that were developed around the industrial revolution. Constant change means constant opportunity. We are still fighting the next revolution, instead of committing to it.
Markus Kirsch in The Wicked Company | 10 Minutes
When Content Creation Goes to Zero
The biggest impact of AI is that it will fundamentally change our relationship with content itself. What is real, what is fake, what is made just for us—distinguishing between them will be murkier than before. We haven’t even covered the ethics behind these tools. The disruption potential at both an individual and a societal level is beyond any other invention of the past. And these changes aren’t happening in some hypothetical, far-off future—they are happening right now. Buckle up.
Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math | 6 Minutes
Replacing Google - and your mom
People have these para-social relationships where they follow a celebrity or a fictional character. And then they feel like they are connected but it’s all one way. And now people want to have this two-way experience where their favourite character talks back. Sometimes it’s fans creating those characters, sometimes it’s the person who runs the character creating it. Never in a million years we have thought that that would be a use case.
Another thing we just hear a lot is people using this like therapist and emotional support. We get all kinds of emails, things like “I have no friends, I was depressed, this makes me feel good, thank you to save my life”. Again, not what we set out to do… We haven’t been focusing on use cases, we just launched it… You put it out there and see what happens. And now you have a virtual therapist effectively. And we are not advertising this, we get feedback that this cartoon character is now my therapist who cares about me and my actual therapist doesn’t
Noam Shazeer in Danny In The Valley | 40 min