- What impact would Artificial Intelligence have on the Knowledge Innovation loop?
Seek knowledge, discover, invent, build tools, explore again. That loop has always had a human in the middle. AI is now working in three of its five stages. - How the Internet Has Impacted Our Mental Capabilities
I first used the Web in 1996 on a college computer. Thirty years later, a personal look at what the Internet gave me, what it cost me, and the one finding I can’t argue with. - What writing costs us
The oldest objection to writing was that it would make us forget. It was right. We made that trade so long ago we stopped noticing, which matters, because AI is offering us another one. - The Most Important Invention in Human History Is Writing
instein could not have written general relativity without reading Newton, 228 years after Newton wrote it down. Post 2 of the Writing as a Technology series, on the invention everything else runs on. - Reading Is a Technology, Not a Human InstinctSpeaking arrives on its own. Reading has to be taught, every time. Post 1 of the Writing as a Technology series asks why that difference matters, and why writing was invented by accountants.
- Cognitive Debt: The Real Cost of Offloading to AII stopped doing long division the day I got a calculator. Technical debt has a cognitive twin, and generative AI makes it far easier to run up. What should we still do ourselves?
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