EP01: Brain-rot in the Platform Kingdom

Hey guys, this is the first episode and a preview to my podcast series. The podcast series will be based on the articles and reflections I wrote. The goal for the podcast is to provide a new mode of participation. Of course, what you will be hearing is not my own voice but my Artificial Intelligence buddies (powered by Google). I will be playing a role as a creator, writer, and producer while my AI buddies will be my co-hosts who will interpret my writing as a source for conversation. 🔮 About a month ago, Google announced the re-entry of AI-powered XR smart glasses, and just a few days ago, Snap revealed plans to release the 6th generation of SNAP Spectacles. 🥽 Apple’s Liquid Glass UX launch also hinted at their move to fuse virtual spaces with our physical atmosphere, extending social reality beyond physical space and joining the race to bring AI-powered chatbots to life. 🌐 While our connection to real-time knowledge and data will be amplified, these developments remind me of my dissertation days, where I questioned what our world might become when reality is no longer separate but wrapped in real-time commercialized and spatialized virtual spaces. 🤔 Today, we discuss “brain rot” due to our heightened addiction to dopamine rushes from social applications and smart devices—what will happen when virtual worlds are woven into the physical fabric? 🧠 We have more information available today thanks to PageRank algorithms, OpenAI, and beyond. But information is just information—without cognitive processing, it serves no purpose. ✨ So I’m sharing my thoughts and 2020 writing (original titled: Thought instruments) with the world, and you’ll discover why I write stories.🤖 As we sleep with intellectual machines, we need to relearn ways to think.🌟 And if we are lucky, it will be the new renaissance of humanity. But we have to act now.Read Article: Get full access to The Observatory and Rover at theobservatoryandrover.substack.com/subscribe