Category: Futurism

In Reader-augmented Writing, I present a way to think about how communication has evolved; how written language, the printing press, and digital media have allowed more people to reach more people with ideas (one-to-many), with readers adding to what authors wrote (many-to-many). Now, with the recent significant developments of large language models (LLMs), I’m adding…

Words gave us the ability to effectively share ideas and knowledge, and writing allowed those words to spread further and be carried across time. The printing press accelerated that spread, and electronic mediums allowed even more people to share ideas more quickly. Yet articles and books — even e-books — are still largely static and…

Getting someone from point-A to point-B will often — even in the distant future — involve a variety of methods of transport. For example, getting someone from their home in San Francisco to an office in Los Angeles might primarily (the majority of the distance) be served by something like high-speed rail or Hyperloop. However,…