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Is front-end dead?
Computer, call me a taxi.
Saul Howard
Mar 28
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February 2023
Can ChatGPT educate us?
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
Saul Howard
Feb 9
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February 2022
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…
Saul Howard
Feb 7, 2022
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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…
Saul Howard
Feb 3, 2022
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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…
Saul Howard
Feb 2, 2022
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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…
Saul Howard
Feb 2, 2022
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January 2022
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…
Saul Howard
Jan 24, 2022
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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…
Saul Howard
Jan 21, 2022
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May 2021
Post literacy
Many people are saying that the culture has entered a post-literate phase. “Post-literate” is supposed to mean that people no longer read books…
Saul Howard
May 18, 2021
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March 2021
In praise of irritation
Creative places are uncomfortable. The tendency is to relax into comfortableness, but this needs to be fought against. We should seek out irritation in…
Saul Howard
Mar 20, 2021
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Twitter addict
I find reaching for my phone, opening Twitter and scrolling to be a hugely compelling activity. The thrill is something like a soap opera, reading…
Saul Howard
Mar 19, 2021
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January 2020
London tech
When Americans reach for a European city to illustrate their point I notice they almost never pick London. If, “What about European tech?”, is the…
Saul Howard
Jan 27, 2020
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