Not a criticism of the demo! more a comment on the shortcomings of text as an interface. I want to be able to take some text and squish it to get a summary; smash two together to get some AI-inferred conclusions or list of disagreements. Text today is very opaque to most software
What if scholars & fans aided by computational algorithms, could knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature? If a reader could generate a social graph of an idea, or timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for anything in the library.
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Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family.
Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case.
Ideally custom built, but could be jerry-rigged
I wish surfing the web felt more like taking a stroll around the internet. Snapping a photo here, collecting a bouquet of interesting things there, maybe slipping a postcard under a friend’s door...
I often use the analogy of “AI for social good” being like creating a tank first and THEN being like oh let’s see how we can use this tank for “social good.”
Then why not create something other than a tank in the first place?
Scientists follow the state’s endless in warfare.
Chatting with @camwiese today about his New World's Fair (which hopes to paint an optimistic, definite vision of the future), I noticed how these projects so often turn to *retro*futurism in art direction. What would a now-rooted, forward-facing hopepunk aesthetic look like?