The World Has Changed. Have We?
Four years. In a world that seems to reinvent itself every few months, four years can feel like a lifetime. Since the last post on this blog, we ’ ve seen technologies become part of our everyday conversations, artificial intelligence enter our workplaces and homes, and new ways of communicating, working, and relating to one another emerge almost overnight. We can create images from a sentence, talk to machines that answer back, attend meetings without leaving our kitchens, and stay connected to people thousands of kilometres away. We have more information at our fingertips than any generation before us. And yet, I keep wondering: Has all this progress changed the way we understand one another? The things that don't update automatically Our devices update themselves. Our applications regularly introduce new features. Even the language we use seems to reinvent itself at astonishing speed. But what about our assumptions? The little stories we tell ourselves about other people. The la...
