THE MIRACLES WE TAKE FOR GRANTED | ISSUE #4
Or, when technology becomes magical
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Hello, it’s Emmanuel. As usual.
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People have become used to science and technology.
We take tech for granted that would have been miraculous a century ago.
Take for example, video conferencing. I remember when I was in Primary school and our form teacher, Mr. Kingsley, made a Zoom call in class with his friend who was living in London.
He turned his laptop webcam to us pupils and we saw a black man in bed wearing woolen scarves and gloves.
Mr. Kingsley asked him to walk outside so we could see London’s streets, but his friend declined. He said it was winter and too cold to go outside.
I was wowed. I was 11, and I knew someone could call and hear another’s voice from halfway across the world. But to actually see the person and have a face-to-face conversation in real time?
If my great-grandfather was there, he wouldn’t have been wowed. He would have been repulsed at witnessing a séance.
My fascination with magical tech and the desire to create some of my own drove me into an obsession with software and coding.
Now, video conferencing is normal to me. I have used it hundreds of times. What wows me now is when I create really good photorealistic images with AI.
Whenever I used to want to appreciate tech, I looked back 20, 50, 100 years and imagined being in the shoes of someone from then. In this AI age, and the unprecedented advances in months, we don’t have to look that far back.
ChatGPT and Midjourney in 2019 are too much of a miracle. Looking back to that time, I couldn’t have imagined that this sort of tech would be possible so soon.
Appreciating tech involves learning as much as is necessary about how they work and maximizing them as much as possible; integrating magical tech into our business workflows to improve efficiency, upscaling personal productivity, utilizing them to improve education and generally pushing the limits of what we can achieve with them.
Kudos to all the unnamed developers who make this magic happen.
I am happy to write to you every day and happier when you give me feedback. Please, leave a comment below. Be assured that I will look to implementing your advice.
With love & ink,
Emmanuel.
I can relate, bro. It's truly something that sounds like a fairytale. You know what's more mind-blowing, the prospects in tech. Our current technological trends will be child's play compared to what the future holds.