Reflections 12th April

Technology, Creativity and Dark Matter...

There is something deeply unsettling about discovering that the walls we trusted were never quite solid. Those around us believe in them, so we believe in them too. That particular conspiracy holds together perfectly well until the walls are tested, and they are now being tested to destruction.

What we might be facing is less rearrangement, more revolution.

Last week, I wondered about what we might do as the walls were being rearranged. This week I find myself wondering whether they will not so much be rearranged as disappear entirely and new ones replace them. We have become so preoccupied with artificial intelligence that human intelligence is not getting much of a look-in, and I think we need to change that.

“If we were going to define a revolution? - It’s the replacement of elites.”

Jimmy Carr on the TRIGGERnometry podcast. (recommended watch)

Ideas have their own elites, and create their own self-serving dogma. Elites won’t disappear, but they will change as the old order can no l…