There is no “future proof.” It’s like asserting the presence of impermeably secure communications systems. Nothing, if not a nice story… …longer-term visions don’t play the same game in better ways. They rewrite the assumptions and axioms, they reinvent it. It is the unquestioned assumptions that generally hide in plain sight and everyday language. For […]
We have stepped across an event horizon in which accelerating rates of technical change and the proliferation of “cognitive” tools have outpaced our personal, professional and/or collective ability to stay on top of the diversity and utility of these rapidly speciating systems. Strategic planning for education (as much as for the broader world) will be […]
A literal gold rush moment, but let’s not kid ourselves about the good, the bad and the ugly of it all. The cadence is already beyond effective management: everyone is constantly playing catch up, and – if you read between the lines, this uncertainty is the kernel core of the value and utility of an […]
Information vulnerability is an implicit, endemic and irreducible cost of communications technology. It doesn’t really matter which instances and risks are in ascendance at any particular moment, as consequential and complex as they may ultimately be, because the underlying fact remains that there is no information security “safe harbour” and every action taken, every assertion […]
In the current metamorphoses and radiative speciation of artificial intelligence, we’re witnessing a subtle yet profound transformation in our relationship with technology. AI, often perceived through a lens of fear and dystopian fictional narratives, is in reality a mirror reflecting and amplifying our own existential anxieties and aspirations. This reflection reveals not only our concerns […]
In a landscape where technology and language converge, we stand at an intriguing crossroads. Language, traditionally the domain of human thought and expression, now blooms in the realm of AI, independent of its human roots. This evolution heralds a significant shift in how we perceive and engage with this fundamental aspect of our identity. Once […]
In the discourse on artificial intelligence and its integration into society, a pressing concern emerges: the potential inability of humanity to adapt to the transformative changes AI brings. This concern is not rooted in the capabilities of AI itself, but in the human response to its rapid evolution. This blog post examines this issue, structured […]
Ottmar Mergenthaler’s 1884 Linotype machine revolutionised printing by the automation of typesetting. With keyboard inputs, it assembled and cast lines of type, replacing slower manual methods and vastly increasing publishing efficiency. Generative technologies invoke a similarly self-amplifying communications signal regarding an indefinitely extensible logic of engineering the reproductive methods and transmission media of symbolic language.
How are we to engage and navigate the speed and ubiquity with which a rising tide of generative technology is now reshaping communication systems? It is precisely the volatility and uncertainty of an accelerating step-change in information technology that assures its persistence and accelerating growth. Combinatorial entropy amplifies communication system complexity, necessitating constant adaptive reorientation […]
There is a significant degree of strategic complexity and regulatory chaos regarding engagements with, and navigation of, the generative turn as it applies to both cultural experience and organisational technology. It is a tectonic shift (and entropic drift) at the scale of a self-accelerating systemic revolution in communication invoked and sustained by the arrival of […]
Technologically-mediated communication is creating the global epidemic of loneliness. Alienation and emptiness is a signal amplified by our ubiquitous and omnipresent sense and experience of contemporary connectivity, an inward-turning inflection of systemic extensibility for which we are quite poorly prepared by the majority of our evolutionary history. Kindness fades in these moments as everyone struggles […]
Access to the high-dimensional complexity resident in machine learning models comes at a cost. It is not being discussed much in public discussions but the ability to interrogate these complex information systems appears to bring an inevitable loss of control over the outputs. Generative systems in particular are prone to this inverse riddle: the more […]
Daedelus Kite 