Category: Books
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AI and ethics: questions that define us
🤔 ´Cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am), said by Descartes almost 400 years ago, suddenly seems very relevant when defining what makes us human in relation to AI. As bewildering as anthropomorphised AI assistance may seem, AI doesn’t think. It’s not human. AI generates systematic answers (and questions) based on the wealth of…
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I’m writing, just not online.
I know, my latest blog post is from April 2022. I am still writing, just not online. Someone in the audience asked Hanya Yanagihara what she would have done differently when working on her first book A Little Life (that took many years to finish). She replied that she would have asked for professional feedback on her…
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Things can be both Bad and Better
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have often thought: what would Hans Rosling have said about advice of epidemiologists, decisions of global leaders, cases counting and data readings by experts, as well as the media coverage of it all? We will never know, as Hans Rosling unfortunately passed away in 2017. But his legacy is particularly…
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Stretch Your Mind and Become Tech Fit
Creativity and tech savviness is not something you are born with, not even web-natives. Anyone can develop their creative muscle. A while ago I read Philip Weiss’s book HyperThinker, Philip reminds about how a daily routine of brain games and problem solving, reading books, watching educational videos or listening to podcasts can stretch your mind.…
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To become Brilliant you first need to get Bored
Did you know that the only people who refer to their customers as “users” are drug dealers and technologists. Dopamine plays a role not only in sex and drugs, but also in swiping and tapping the way we do on our smartphones. Changing our online behaviour and getting bored is the way to generating bigger…
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Homonationalism against Muslims and Migrants in Europe
Recent years terrorist attacks has led to a political ‘fight against terrorism’, which is fuelling a European populist and nationalist image of a secular and progressive western culture that is being threatened by Islam and migration. LGBT-people and women are being used as part of neoliberal rhetoric to argue that these groups have to be…
Annica Ryng 