This isn’t a book and was never written to be one, but readers might get some value of thinking of it that way anyhow… and reading on topics that are most relevant to them.
- Of Poets & Processors is a blog presented as a series of week-daily posts, a kind of long conversation with some guy who had a role to play in the construction of the digital age and who is now trying to understand what it has done to us. Welcome.
- How did we get from beeping beige boxes on our desk helping us with the tedium of complex business tasks to machines and systems capable of generating language, images, music and even ideas? I saw it but I still often need to take a step back and take a closer look.
- When creativity becomes just another commodity, when everyone can create without ever taking the time to learn the once hard-earned skills of art, music, writing and more, what is left of value?
- For those who still learn difficult skills and find themselves competing with processors, is there a deeper purpose or meaning to the effort, and what happens to our humanity when technical mastery becomes optional?
- The flip side of business computing is the gaming industry and every generation has crept ever closer to a perceived finish line of the ultimate computed entertainment, but what does gaming and the popularity of style, art and surrealism say about our technical perfection ambitions?
- What were once immobile beige boxes on our desks have been replaced by slick black rectangles we can barely stand to tear our eyes from anymore, so how have smart devices changed the relationship between humans and machines?