> THIS is the identity crisis: I’ve had a talent for explaining things from a young age, and I’ve honed the talent into a skill over several decades. I derived satisfaction from knowing that I do it better than average. Now that skill has already been commodified.
The writer seems to assume that people can learn entirely from computer displays. (Including glasses) That would be a world where our entire lives or a great deal of them, are devoted to computer generated facts, experiences, well, everything.
There are still both creative and mundane experiences like the door molding that needs a fix.
I've been through a few revolutions that "changed everything" From the phone without a dial (true) to cell phones that solve the formerly horrifying "I couldn't find you at the airport" situation.
And so on.
I guess that the existential question is: "What is the purpose, meaning, and joy in life?"
It's not defined by the gadgets and technologies outside us, but truly by the relationships we have with people. So, if AI "replaces" my highly personal photographic experiences captured on film or memory, it's shared with close friends who know the story behind it and its value as an experience shared. I rarely post my photos anywhere, thanks to the image bureau and AI dragnets. They commoditize and destroy that personsl value. Art is self-expression. Read Joseph Conrad's preface [0]
Likewise, as long as life is full of experiences away from computer screens (and glasses), those are real life, and the technology is just ornament.
I had a plan for after-school education in which kids would go out and measure things and use computers to analyze the data. Like Kepler, but a lot faster. And the learning is in the doing.
Very long ago, 50 years to be factual, I wanted to get a third class Electrician's Mate rating, and in those days, you could strike for a rating. Pass some exams and show expertise with real gear. One of the Warrant Officers was tickled that I did it "the old way" instead of "A" school, because it's all "A" school now. Probably computerized.
Now, I'm retired, and relationships with people mean even more. I have more experiences and wisdom to share, and in a way that's unique to each person, not a multidimensional "profile" which might even be more complete than my understanding, but in a personal way that comes from the shared experience of being human and cares deeply about feelings, because we've had similar ones.
Not defined by the technology of the time: Mom and Dad's old "Operator" phone or 53 Ford. But by what we shared as persons, equal in humanity though as different as a kid and parent can be, and through evolving lives and times.
The writer seems to assume that people can learn entirely from computer displays. (Including glasses) That would be a world where our entire lives or a great deal of them, are devoted to computer generated facts, experiences, well, everything.
There are still both creative and mundane experiences like the door molding that needs a fix.
I've been through a few revolutions that "changed everything" From the phone without a dial (true) to cell phones that solve the formerly horrifying "I couldn't find you at the airport" situation.
And so on.
I guess that the existential question is: "What is the purpose, meaning, and joy in life?"
It's not defined by the gadgets and technologies outside us, but truly by the relationships we have with people. So, if AI "replaces" my highly personal photographic experiences captured on film or memory, it's shared with close friends who know the story behind it and its value as an experience shared. I rarely post my photos anywhere, thanks to the image bureau and AI dragnets. They commoditize and destroy that personsl value. Art is self-expression. Read Joseph Conrad's preface [0]
Likewise, as long as life is full of experiences away from computer screens (and glasses), those are real life, and the technology is just ornament.
I had a plan for after-school education in which kids would go out and measure things and use computers to analyze the data. Like Kepler, but a lot faster. And the learning is in the doing.
Very long ago, 50 years to be factual, I wanted to get a third class Electrician's Mate rating, and in those days, you could strike for a rating. Pass some exams and show expertise with real gear. One of the Warrant Officers was tickled that I did it "the old way" instead of "A" school, because it's all "A" school now. Probably computerized.
Now, I'm retired, and relationships with people mean even more. I have more experiences and wisdom to share, and in a way that's unique to each person, not a multidimensional "profile" which might even be more complete than my understanding, but in a personal way that comes from the shared experience of being human and cares deeply about feelings, because we've had similar ones.
Not defined by the technology of the time: Mom and Dad's old "Operator" phone or 53 Ford. But by what we shared as persons, equal in humanity though as different as a kid and parent can be, and through evolving lives and times.
[0] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad/the-nigger-o...