Derek Thompson

That's AI as an effective input, as maybe we'll see in a few years a kind of universal input to the creative economy across white-collar work and writing and music and all sorts of idea generation. AI as the all-purpose input, I think, is a really interesting idea to play with. And I'm very grateful that Mark helped me concretize it. We'll talk to you Friday.

That's AI as an effective input, as maybe we'll see in a few years a kind of universal input to the creative economy across white-collar work and writing and music and all sorts of idea generation. AI as the all-purpose input, I think, is a really interesting idea to play with. And I'm very grateful that Mark helped me concretize it. We'll talk to you Friday.

That's AI as an effective input, as maybe we'll see in a few years a kind of universal input to the creative economy across white-collar work and writing and music and all sorts of idea generation. AI as the all-purpose input, I think, is a really interesting idea to play with. And I'm very grateful that Mark helped me concretize it. We'll talk to you Friday.

Today, the decline of reading in America. So I recently read a wonderful short story by the science fiction writer Ted Chiang, which is called The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling. It's featured in his collection of short stories entitled Exhalation. And this short story unfolds along two parallel tracks.

Today, the decline of reading in America. So I recently read a wonderful short story by the science fiction writer Ted Chiang, which is called The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling. It's featured in his collection of short stories entitled Exhalation. And this short story unfolds along two parallel tracks.

Today, the decline of reading in America. So I recently read a wonderful short story by the science fiction writer Ted Chiang, which is called The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling. It's featured in his collection of short stories entitled Exhalation. And this short story unfolds along two parallel tracks.

In the modern narrative, which takes place sometime in the near future, a journalist is assigned to cover a new technology called re-mem, which allows people to film their entire lives and play back memories on a retinal projector. In other words, it's a technology that grants every person perfect photographic memory of every event in their life.

In the modern narrative, which takes place sometime in the near future, a journalist is assigned to cover a new technology called re-mem, which allows people to film their entire lives and play back memories on a retinal projector. In other words, it's a technology that grants every person perfect photographic memory of every event in their life.

In the modern narrative, which takes place sometime in the near future, a journalist is assigned to cover a new technology called re-mem, which allows people to film their entire lives and play back memories on a retinal projector. In other words, it's a technology that grants every person perfect photographic memory of every event in their life.

A little bit like that great Black Mirror episode written by Jesse Armstrong. And this journalist explores the ways that re-mem changes people's lives, how it resolves fights between couples over who said what to whom, how it makes it impossible for certain people to forget fights in their past that they might want to forget.

A little bit like that great Black Mirror episode written by Jesse Armstrong. And this journalist explores the ways that re-mem changes people's lives, how it resolves fights between couples over who said what to whom, how it makes it impossible for certain people to forget fights in their past that they might want to forget.

A little bit like that great Black Mirror episode written by Jesse Armstrong. And this journalist explores the ways that re-mem changes people's lives, how it resolves fights between couples over who said what to whom, how it makes it impossible for certain people to forget fights in their past that they might want to forget.

But what makes this story so cool is that the modern sci-fi narrative is interspersed with another story that's set in the past. Here we have a Christian missionary introducing written language to a young man named Djingi in a preliterate African tribe. And Djingi initially finds the technology of writing very strange and not helpful.

But what makes this story so cool is that the modern sci-fi narrative is interspersed with another story that's set in the past. Here we have a Christian missionary introducing written language to a young man named Djingi in a preliterate African tribe. And Djingi initially finds the technology of writing very strange and not helpful.

But what makes this story so cool is that the modern sci-fi narrative is interspersed with another story that's set in the past. Here we have a Christian missionary introducing written language to a young man named Djingi in a preliterate African tribe. And Djingi initially finds the technology of writing very strange and not helpful.

His tribe has relied on oral tradition to remember and to share knowledge. But over time, Jujingi learns to read and to write, and he realizes that the process of reading is changing the texture of his thought, his own relationship to the past and to ideas.

His tribe has relied on oral tradition to remember and to share knowledge. But over time, Jujingi learns to read and to write, and he realizes that the process of reading is changing the texture of his thought, his own relationship to the past and to ideas.

His tribe has relied on oral tradition to remember and to share knowledge. But over time, Jujingi learns to read and to write, and he realizes that the process of reading is changing the texture of his thought, his own relationship to the past and to ideas.

And as he changes, he begins to have fights with the elders in his tribe when they tell one story and he can consult a written document that tells another. And the story by Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling, essentially pings between these two narratives.

And as he changes, he begins to have fights with the elders in his tribe when they tell one story and he can consult a written document that tells another. And the story by Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling, essentially pings between these two narratives.