Cheers to 30 Issues of Emmanuel’s Letters!
Hurray!
Hello,
I am blushing right now.
On 19 Oct. 2023, I sent out THE INTRO - ISSUE #1.
I really can’t believe that it has been this long.
It’s been a fun journey all this time.
We started out as “daily insights and musings on tech and business” and we’ve iterated a number of times over this time into a mushrooming library of engaging articles on AI and emerging tech.
Thank you, sincerely, for your relentless support and helpful feedback.
We would have been celebrating this small win on 19 Nov. 2023 and I appreciate your understanding during the hiccups.
Over the past 30 issues, in this little corner of the Internet, we have daringly and humbly challenged fundamental conceptions, proposed frameworks, shunned laxity and dispelled misconceptions.
If being humble and daring at the same time sounds paradoxical to you, consider that we pose these difficult questions because we admit that we don’t know their answers.
And we continually strive to learn more.
We are not cowered by the gravity or difficulty of the issues we discuss.
We are discerning enough to understand that we are at the precipice of the most revolutionarily technological era in history.
And we are responsible enough to partake in, perhaps, the most important conversations that will shape the future of the entire human race.
Here’s a quick-and-sleek round-up of what it’s been like:
We’ve talked corporate America and Cerebral Valley in X Marks the Spot, The Battle for the Data and Getting Fired and Hired in 3 Days.
We made predictions about what AI will look like in a decade in The Future in, Five Prophecies I and II. We then, threw in what the experts think, in 5 Expert Stats About AI.
In Tag Me as Human, we try (and fail) to answer what a human is, even as we reintroduce some of Hollywood’s best candidates for the revered position of Humanity in A Robot Moved Me to Tears and AI Girlfriends, and explore AI in love, romance and society.
Your fears about AI get stoked in the aptly-named This Thought Experiment Might Cost You Your Life and they are allayed in (the not-so-aptly-named) I Want AI to Take Your Job.
Your Brain is Just a Computer makes you jealous of plastic-and-metal things and We are Fueling Another Species War strips you of any human ego you have left.
When the New Michelangelo Has a Robot Helper, How to AI-fy Learning and AI Stands for Augmented Intelligence are little treatises on viewing AI as a helpful friend (rather than a feared enemy) and the power of human-machine collaboration.
I think All Hail the Demigod and The (New) Techno-Religion, although unfinished, make for good radical reading.
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emmanuelpaulmaah.substack.comI love doing this with you. Cheers to many many more.
With love and ink,
Emmanuel.
I didn’t mention 11 issues above, so check them out too