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“This is a test of the Emergency Handwriting System”
Handwriting enriches human expression. A side effect of a New Year's resolution.
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Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
James Boyle claims the that "line" separating humans from things is going to be redrawn.
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Baker/No-Baker. Thinker/No-Thinker.
“Computerized baking has profoundly changed the balletic physical activities of the shop…
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Book review: John Warner’s More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
"The Biblioracle" uses AI to guide us back to solid ground on writing and reading, revealing he's a conservative at heart. An enjoyable and lively book.
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The fate of letters
There's a difference between paper and bytes. Handwriting power. A prelude: BINGO resolutions!
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CES “booth babes” before 1967?
It’s CES time. Organizers and attendees have argued about the ladies since 1967, sometimes just about their label. Their marketing services date back much longer.
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Four photographs and their “truths”
Photos from the nineteenth century and from 2023 helped my fall seminar students explore truth, the fake, and fiction.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Things work very, very well in this country
New "personal technology" products are developing a special kind of "ownership" that didn't exist a generation ago.
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How The American Way traveled by car
Photography from the 1930s shows the interplay of cars, hopes for the future, and The American Way of life.
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Mostly fake people, dead ones
Even the separation of life and death can be bridged with simulations—a kind of undying deep fake of real humans that aligns with fake influencers.