Depth of intellect, moral conviction and authentic leadership is what we crave right now. Generative AI is going to create a boom of public intellectuals
This is optimistic and I hope we move in that direction. Social media and now AI have overwhelmed us with the wrong kind of values (I think), that it will be a difficult path to go back to seeking and taking the - uncool, uninstagrammable - time to listen to our public intellectuals.
I agree. But I also think we're heading to saturation point -- maybe it's just me but I think people are starting to be "over" the Instagramification of everything. Public intellectuals can be cool, but this depends on what our definition of cool is now. Long-form "content" seems to be making a comeback and entering its "cool era". Thanks for reading and your comment Monica :)
This is optimistic and I hope we move in that direction. Social media and now AI have overwhelmed us with the wrong kind of values (I think), that it will be a difficult path to go back to seeking and taking the - uncool, uninstagrammable - time to listen to our public intellectuals.
I agree. But I also think we're heading to saturation point -- maybe it's just me but I think people are starting to be "over" the Instagramification of everything. Public intellectuals can be cool, but this depends on what our definition of cool is now. Long-form "content" seems to be making a comeback and entering its "cool era". Thanks for reading and your comment Monica :)
Sure! Hopefully long-form, well thought out pieces are making a comeback. We need to recuperate our attention span with that too! 😊