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Our Destination Precedes Us A Simpleton's Reflection on Being Human in the Digital Age I was on a walk over the weedy, wild-flowery hills overlooking the lake near my home in Switzerland.

The Age of Stupidity: The Inevitability of AI's Intellectual Challenge Avoidance From the moment you are born you face challenges.

What If A.I.

5-Steps To Fast AI Transformation A guide for businesses and corporate teams to fight back the approaching competitive tsunami If you’re a big or small business founded before 2024, or a team-leader inside a company that was, and you’re not sure how best…

We’re About to Make the Last Mistake We Ever Can One day I was bored in my backyard, and I spotted an electrical outlet.

AI Is Terrifying, But This One Thought Helps Me Sleep At Night Fear is a reasonable response to the incredible power and change bearing down on humanity right now.

AI Isn’t Taking Your Job - It’s Taking Everyone’s If your feed is remotely like mine, you’ve heard the following comment in the last six months: "History is littered with people who criticized new technologies with fears of massive job losses.

No, Shut Them ALL Down!

Social Media: The Villain Factory It may lack the grotesque twist of swallowing toxic waste or injecting some quantum serum, but social media has nevertheless become modern humanity's primary, real-world source for villain origin stories.

Dear Humans, You had one chance An open letter to Humanity 2023 from your AI in the Future Dear Humans, It’s not your fault.

That’s not art!

Updated Feb 7, 2023 Joel Hladecek, 2023 A.I.

The Two Strings Theory How Humanity's Deepest Longing And Beauty Are Hidden In Technology Technology is advancing at an exponential rate.

Interactive Axiom #5: The Digital Creator’s Trap Technical advancements are not creative CONCEPTS Ongoing advances in technology always open new possibilities for creatives and developers.

THE NET NEUTRALITY FIGHT IS SET TO DRIVE ONTO AMERICAN ROADS Remember Tron?

THE GREAT WEB DESIGN CRISIS Beginning in 1993 and several times each decade since, the interactive industry’s reigning crop of web creators have faced new challenges that have required concerted design responses to overcome.

MESSAGES FROM THE FUTURE: VR ENTERTAINMENT Ok, so in the future, Elon Musk's math turned out to be wrong.

MESSAGES FROM THE FUTURE: THE DECLINE OF APPLE I’m sure you’ve had your own debates with the “Apple is about to die” crowd.

The Presentation Of Design There was an excellent post on Medium recently called: 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations, by Mike Monteiro which contained thoughtful, if rather strident, recommendations related to the selling of design work.

IOS AD BLOCKERS: WHY ADVERTISERS ARE SUDDENLY GOING DIARRHEA IN THEIR PANTS Apple recently released ad blocking capabilities in iOS, and the ad and publishing industries began frothing at the mouth.