Today’s Meditations:
Generation X Strikes Back - Is Artificial Intelligence just one more technological revolution Generation X will endure? (FREE)
Growing Joy Means Expanding Consciousness - You have one purpose on this planet, and it isn’t paying taxes or scrolling Instagram. (PAID)
Remembering Johnny Carson - I finished Bill Zehme’s Carson Biography and learned a few things. (PAID)
Don’t Die Lonely - It’s okay to be alone, but if you’re lonely, that’s on you. (PAID)
Meditation 1: Generation X Strikes Back
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Kate invited me to participate in a panel discussion she cleverly titled “GRAY-I” which was focused on Generation X and Generative AI. She gathered an incredible group together, and we had a revelatory conversation. I took notes on the topics I mentioned and the stories I told, and used that as source material to write an essay I published earlier this week, linked below.
With all the mostly melodramatic fervor and fear over AI upsetting the current disorder in the world, few people are speaking about the human factor that AI will never be able to create successfully: Human Emotional Intelligence. AI may get close to mimicking Human EI, but there is only one place in nature where that rare commodity is manufactured: the human mind and heart working together like a cosmic engine. Human beings must insert emotional intelligence into AI prompts at every level. Failing to do so will yield the social operations of humanity over to machines, and we will each falter from small mistakes.
At the very least, Generation X is a bridge between culture wars and technological ludditism. And if your reactionary stance against emerging technology is that it’s always bad, do the world a favor and shut up so you can learn.
There’s so much noise in the world, please don’t add more. Start by reading this:
Why Gen X Is the Perfect Generation to Adopt AI – as Artists and Professionals
Last year, I presented on stage at a technology conference. The topic was AI for an aging population, and it was controversial. I asked the audience how many had been in business for ten years or more. Most raised their hands. Then I asked them how many had twenty years. More than half the hands went down. Thirty? About five stayed up. Forty? One stayed…
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