This topic is a big challenge. Only because is it truly an embarrassment of riches. The world around us is moving at a rate of change that is simply vertiginous. The rate of advancements in innovation with technology as its offspring, is as exhilarating as it is frightening. It is truly unsettling that essentially we do not have ethical, moral, intellectual, social, political and financial constructs to support that. Innovation and, thus, technology, have always galloped well ahead of those constructs.
Humbly, the editors of the INFLUENCER have been on the leading edge of technology for decades. Artificial Intelligence was an integral component of the likely most impactful leap forward in our specific business in the mass-marketing world as early as the ‘80s. We have written and spoken much about AI and its brethren, in so many of its iterations. A fun topic coming to you soon in an exclusive expert video/audio is Writing and Story Telling in the Age of AI. Not as much fun as Relationships, Dating and Romance in the Age of AI….
Reading and watching entirely too much US news, honorable mention goes to TikTok in the news…
Just wondering how many people in the world know the restrictions on TikTok in China? TikTok (Douyin in China) is absolutely, unabashedly controlled by the CCP. In US context, nothing American kids would ever want!
Wondering if Elon Musk will end up with TikTok. And what will all the balderdash-spewing social scientists (whatever those are) and TV-focused constitutional lawyers say about that? Likely irrelevant. What will Musk do with TikTok, with the US as a 50% partner in it.
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