I recently watched the mini-series Zero Day with Robert De Niro as a former US President charged with trying to work out who was behind a cyber attack on American systems.
A ‘silent single’ has been released by musicians including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn and Kate Bush today as a protest against planned changes to copyright law which would make it easier for AI companies to use copyrighted work without a licence.
I heard this phrase a little while ago — healthy hedonism. And it struck a chord. I am a little hedonistic myself. Not in the drinking, drug-taking, breaking rules kind of way. In fact, I rarely drink, I don’t take drugs and if I even think about breaking a rule I get found out so I don’t bother.
Every few days Biden and Trump take a pop at each other over their respective ages. This brings up a lot of questions for me around age and wisdom, versus age and inability or unwillingness to adapt and change, versus age and cognitive decline.
Unless you understand people, you won’t understand technology
Whether you are threatened by the advances in technology or excited by them (or both) the truth is that the way we work, and what we work on, is about to be radically disrupted.