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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
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
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
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
LLMs, education and the return of Expert Systems
Saul Howard
Computer, call me a taxi.
Saul Howard
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
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
‘That was our old religion, Master Harker,’ Cole said, nodding towards it. ‘It was nothing like so good as the new, of course, but it was good fun in…
Saul Howard
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
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
Some values may benefit small groups such as startups, without necessarily being good for people’s everyday lives or even society as a whole. For…
Saul Howard
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