A recent study found that e-bike riders, on average, get mor...

A recent study found that e-bike riders, on average, get more exercise than riders of traditional (acoustic?) bicycles. How can that be? By amplifying the rider’s effort, the e-bike takes its rider further, faster. The rider who goes further, faster ultimately rides more than their unassisted counterpart. Their heart, lungs, and muscles grow stronger as a result. What if the rest of our technology worked more like an e-bike? What if our tools made you stronger and smarter while expanding your capabilities, rather than increasingly dependent on them as you atrophy? What if they took you further into new challenges, helping you test the limits of your own potential?

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AI is an electric bicycle for your mind, so you can be out of shape and still power up hills

-Venkatesh Rao

This is how technology should work: starting with a human need, and a purpose, technology should extend outwards with the intent of expanding the human, not confining or reducing.

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This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to ... See more