Tag: teachers
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How I Built My Wisephone
A little over ten years ago, I had what my charming meditation teacher calls a nervous breakthrough. I enjoyed my job as a freelance journalist and book critic in 2012, but the smartphone had ruined everything. The newspaper that had been the backbone of my income folded. Glossy thick magazines, now skeletal, were paying half…
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Harnessing The Unhappiness of Future Generations
Whether AI will support the happiness, or the misery, of future generations is up to us I didn’t need a world happiness report to tell me that young adults in North America are suffering alarming levels of unhappiness. I witnessed this first hand last week, when I went to see Dune with a young family member…
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AI Literacy: Reframing Attitudes
This is a thought piece I wrote for a panel on Algorithm Literacy that I was invited to moderate at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week in September. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to Paris, but still worth thinking about for 2024, so sharing it here… Recently, out of curiosity, I asked Chat GPT 3…