Google’s Smart Reply: Convenience Over Connection

Gmail offers users canned responses to emails, based on AI interpretations of the contents and the user’s typical writing style. This convenience, unknown to the recipient, comes at a social cost.

By Samantha Maxwell | December 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Ethics, Relationships, Society | Automation, Communication, Connection, Connectivity, Convenience, Conversation, Email, Friendship, Gmail, Google, Love, relationships, Smart Reply, Social Interaction, Speed

Tangible Things and Why They Matter

In The Revenge of Analog, David Sax explains how the lure of things like vinyl records and paperback books is on the rise, with good reason.

By Cecile Andrews | September 6, 2017 | Culture, Education, Philosophy, Relationships, Society | Addiction, Analog, Barbara Ehernreich, Books, Community, Conversation, Dancing, David Sax, Digital, Education, Empathy, Joy, Notebooks, Paper, Protest, Real, Records, Senses, Sherry Turkle, Tangible, Teaching, Thoreau, vinyl, Walden

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