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Books We Read in 2024 to Prepare Us for the Future
Reading and writing isn’t something to be surrendered to AI. Here are six books written by humans to give insight into a world changed rapidly by technology.
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Earlier this year I came across a two-frame comic strip that I enjoyed so much I printed it out and taped it to the corner of my desk.
In the first frame, an office worker delightedly tells a colleague: “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.” In the second, the recipient of that email responds: “AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read.”