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The Challenge of Life
I don't know how to think about this. I think it's easy to be worried about it. As a remarkable essay by Mark Halper and he wrote it in. 2000. He tries to get at the fact that life in say 1900 compared to today was slower, more thoughtful, deeper, richer. People in 1900 had hard lives. So we've certainly lost something through the material acceleration and the technological acceleration that has taken place over the last hundred years. We have to decide where we make our stand. Where do we maintain those skills of conversation, communication, emotional connection? Those are all being discouraged by the smartphone. They will be discouraged even further by artificial intelligence. This is where