Author of The End of Absence, Solitude, and All We Want. Writer of the Command Line Heroes podcast.
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Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there, wherever your love may wander. Old-fashioned love letters may be disappearing (why bother in an age of AI-generated text) but I tried to give them a little love in @globeandmail this week:
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Love letters are a vanishing art in the age of DMs. So, in anticipation of Valentine's Day, I wrote a Love Letter to Love Letters for @globeandmail. 💜
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By the astute @vancouverharris RT The automation of writing is almost here. But what will happen to us if we cede our written language to AI? /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Deeply insightful, beautifully written analysis by @vancouverharris of where we are headed if we surrender our writing & language to AI... chilling.
Opinion: The automation of writing is almost here. But what will happen to us if we cede our written language to AI? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
My latest for @globeandmail...
Opinion: The automation of writing is almost here. But what will happen to us if we cede our written language to AI? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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“A billion robots sounds like a lot, but it isn’t,” says @TheSanctuaryAI’s co-founder @realgeordierose, whose company aims to create the world’s first general-purpose robot with human intelligence. Journalist @vancouverharris explores:
thewalrus.ca/sanctuary-ai/
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“By 2030, Amazon expects more robots than humans in its workforce.”
The world’s first general-purpose robot might be closer than we think. Journalist @vancouverharris explains why:
thewalrus.ca/sanctuary-ai/
Spending time with a groundbreaking robot called Phoenix made me question AI, the future of work... and just about everything. I wrote about that experience for @thewalrus (Big thanks to @TheSanctuaryAI for introducing me to their fascinating humanoid.)
“By 2030, Amazon expects more robots than humans in its workforce.”
The world’s first general-purpose robot might be closer than we think. Journalist @vancouverharris explains why:
thewalrus.ca/sanctuary-ai/
My brilliant husband. #XMen97
It's been 10 years on the dot since my first book, The End of Absence, was born.
It was my attempt to explain how life feels for the last folk who remember a pre-internet world. In the decade since, I kept trying to explain. Here are my best answers.
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Opinion: Magical thinking: On artistic inspiration in the age of AI theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
All art is theft in the age of AI.
My latest for the @globeandmail
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My latest for @Western_Living in which the founder of Hershel lights up his home with as many Bocci lights as he likes (and it's a lot).
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My latest for @globeandmail
A little essay where your mom's old recipe cards face off against cooking apps.
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Michael Harris retweeted
“It comes to me as Ella Fitzgerald’s vibrato pulses through the vintage Tannoy speakers: in a world where signals are always drowned by noise—a world where feverish egos push us always to interrupt—here’s a cloister that demands our focused attention.”
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If we bust a few regulations, could we build a better city? My latest for Vancouver magazine. @vanmag_com @urbanarium
Urbanarium’s Decoding Density competition breaks all the rules—in the name of solving our housing crisis. Here's how the organization is pushing architects to think outside the box: vanmag.com/city/real-estate/…
Thanks, André!
Quiet is precious in our distracted world. Come on, repeal the noise, by @vancouverharris via @GlobeDebate @mattogee theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
My first cover story for the @globeandmail 💜
Opinion: Quiet is precious in our distracted world. Come on, repeal the noise theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Michael Harris retweeted
"Every stream of elevator Muzak, every pinging phone, every grating television is not merely a moment of distraction – it is a message. And the message is this: “Your own quiet life is unworthy of your attention.”"
A new gem from @vancouverharris
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Fascinating read, Arno! Oh, those tricky hero meets...
Never meet you heroes, they say, and for this profile - I didn't.
Vaclav Smil has written 50 books about the biosphere. No one annoys him more than the environmental left.
The strange tale of a man who fled the Soviet empire but never quite escaped.
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