Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 109

Issue 109, May 18, 2023

What if there were term limits on your ideas, thoughts, hopes and dreams? What if you reached a point in your life where you learned nothing new and were limited by your past experiences and body of knowledge? And if this were the case, and you led an organization, you might become irrelevant pretty quickly since you wouldn’t have the knowledge and scope to address today’s issues and challenges.

Generative AI may be a liberally interpreted case of technological dementia; it’s similar to individuals who are trapped in the past with a repetitive present or a future only informed by what they have known.

A  White Knight, or Dark Force?

The excitement about AI has hit an inflection point across society, the tech sector, and even the stock market. Every investor has turned their attention to any company that represents or includes a project leveraging AI.

Society is about to change, perhaps radically and there is much that we really should consider. We seem to be at a po…