Much will be written about this decade, both subtle and gross, but I suspect the before and after demarcation will ultimately be very clear to those looking back. For now, I just want to share this profound observation from Ted Gioia:
The speed of this erosion is scary. You can almost measure it week by week.
Just a year ago, if I had told you that AI was in love with a NY Times reporter and trying to break up his marriage, you would have thought I was describing a sci-fi screenplay. But it’s now just another tech news story.
Or if I had told you that your dinner at a Paris restaurant might be made out of bugs, you would have thought this was a horror film or comedy routine. But not anymore—so take a close look at that special du jour before chowing down.
In a simpler day, crypto execs didn’t have their hologram counterfeited to scam money over a Zoom call. But hey, that’s how things roll in 2023.
And what would you think if, just a few months back, I’d asked you to pick out a code word that you could use to prove you were a human being when dealing with family and loved ones? That sounds like something out of the paranoid mind of Philip K. Dick. Or at least it did until the current moment, when it’s actually good advice.
