Bots vs Scribbles

Am composing this on macOS with a wireless keyboard. Mainly because it’s a tick closer to me than the iPad and Pencil. I prefer the latter. There, in between the scribbles, is the space where synthesis meets thinking meetings “ah, yea, we don’t wanna go that way.” On the other hand, typing is more direct. You type, there might be some autocorrect, there might be some more typing, and then you delete… its very linear.. very direct. Rigid.

The excitement about bots and AI seems to follow the latter more than the former. And truth be told, if there were a way to discern my scribbles and connect new paths between them, then we’d not need to listen to much about “AI taking over the world” at all….

….we’d be in our notepads, scribbling threads rarely imagined, mostly nonverbal, and largely conversational with the unconscious self. Contemplative doesn’t get as much shine. It should.