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Can ChatGPT educate us?
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
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Is front-end dead?
Computer, call me a taxi.
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Saul Howard
A unicycle for the mind
Back when you still needed to convince people to buy a computer, Steve Jobs loved to say Apple made “bicycles for the mind”, amplifying our output to…
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Saul Howard
Total communication
As big tech buys up first media and now gaming, we might reasonably ask, is there any sector they won’t eventually consume? It can seem as if Google…
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Saul Howard
Digital Babylon won’t fall
The metaverse is at once a “lazy rebranding of the same old social networks”, and yet also an “attempt to enslave humanity”. This is a familiar place…
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Saul Howard
All is but toys
I spoke to David Wighton at The Times about Gamification of Work, who quoted me as a “fan” of gamification: Yet the impact of the pandemic on the future…
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Saul Howard
The Remote Era
We are entering a new age of knowledge work: the Remote Era. In a McLuhan sense, the medium of office work has changed. Up until now, everybody thought…
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Taking games seriously
Enterprise software design is converging on the patterns of game design because work is now fully virtual and game interfaces are the language of the…
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