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AI And Text Dominance: Navigating The Future Of Human Conversations

How AI powered chatbots affect human conversations and the dominance of chat for Generation Z. The future of communications

John Battelle's Search Blog An Appreciation of The "Home Phone"

Last night on a whim I asked folks on Twitter if they had a home phone - you know, a "hard line" - the k ind of communications device that used to be ubiquitous, but seem increasingly an anachronism these days. The response was overwhelming - only three or four of about 35 responses, about…

Reclaiming childhood in the 'device age' – The Echo

Here's Why Some Boldly Assert That We Ought To Be Doing Psychoanalysis With AI And Of AI

Many don't realize the intertwined nature of AI and psychoanalysis, so it's timely to air things out. From history to state of the art, learn what it's all about.

Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

The Doomscroll Generation | Washington Monthly

John Battelle's Search Blog On "The Corporation," the Film

If you read my Predictions for 2012, you'll recall that #6 was “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark. We aren't very far into the year, and signs of this coming true are all around. The "Occupy" movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning "the corporation as a…

Loneliness Is a Disease That Government and Technology Want to Cure - What Could Go Wrong?

Relearning How to Talk in the Age of Smartphone Addiction

We are HUGE fans of Sherry Turkle around The Cryptosphere: her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, which discusses the ways in which personal computers serve as personal portraits, as autobiography, belongs on every bookshelf. And, yes, every Kindle, too. We've been fans since we saw her as a grad student, opening…

Using AI chatbots to ease loneliness — Harvard Gazette