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You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonwealth of life" that we are “inextricably entangled with and suffused by"; the paradox that the more accurately you try to measure some things, the more unmeasurable they become; the way words we use all the time have kept our cellular belonging to the natural world alive, even as civilization forgot.
The technologist/artist James Bridle brings all of this into interplay with an intriguing, refreshing lens on our lives with technology — and with all that artificial intelligence is and might become.
You might not think of intelligence the same way again, or the truth of mythology, or the letters of the alphabet, or what it means to be human. And you will smile next time you access the place where your digital life is stored and realize what it says about us that we named it The Cloud.
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James Bridle is an artist and technologist and author of the books "Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence" and "New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future". Their writing has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, The Atlantic, and many other places. Their art has been exhibited around the world, including at NOME Gallery in Berlin.
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You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonwealth of life" that we are “inextricably entangled with and suffused by"; the paradox that the more accurately you try to measure some things, the more unmeasurable they become; the way words we use all the time have kept our cellular belonging to the natural world alive, even as civilization forgot.
The technologist/artist James Bridle brings all of this into interplay with an intriguing, refreshing lens on our lives with technology — and with all that artificial intelligence is and might become.
You might not think of intelligence the same way again, or the truth of mythology, or the letters of the alphabet, or what it means to be human. And you will smile next time you access the place where your digital life is stored and realize what it says about us that we named it The Cloud.
ABOUT
James Bridle is an artist and technologist and author of the books "Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence" and "New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future". Their writing has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, The Atlantic, and many other places. Their art has been exhibited around the world, including at NOME Gallery in Berlin.
STAY IN TOUCH
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
TikTok: tiktok.com/@onbeing
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
The Pause newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
Poetry Unbound: https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unb...
#onbeing #kristatippett #podcast #jamesbridle #artificialintelligence #chatgpt4
