No - not the 🎶 pop group - they were 'NSYNC' ... just an acknowledgement of how nice it is to find like minded travelers on the journey. The quote below found here “We need to resist the narratives that are frequently served to us by corporations that sell these technologies, that these models of the future are dependent upon the particular technologies that they’re selling, that it’s always some future that is just around the corner that we have to buy into, when in fact the future is already here.

There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output. My mind explodes when I see the 'image' results. I think ‘meh’ - so far - when I see the 'written' results. I am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin' 💬 Bob Dylan With the financial problems ricocheting around the world - I see occasional headlines from 50 years ago.

I am sitting in New Zealand writing this. It started as an idea in my head and was typed into a local file on my computer. I copied it to Wordpress (my blog hosting software of choice) and saved a draft to my People First server. The words were then sitting on a server in Iowa, USA. From this point on, as I edit the draft, I am in New Zealand, the words I am editing are in Iowa - where am I working?

Why none of my books are available on Audible is a 'spoken essay' from Cory which will eventually be the only entry he has in the Audible library. Take a listen to find out why. The link takes you to a page on his Craphound site, or go directly to 🎙️the podcast Thinking Allowed This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program.

In 2013, Mark Cameron wrote ‘Data is not the new oil, it is the new soil.’ He concludes; "Generating business value from consumer data isn’t about technology at all. It’s about how you use data to create a fantastic experience for your customers. If you can help your customer get value from their own information they will reward you for that effort. If you continue to use data to spam your customers or provide value to your company, you may find yourself wondering where everybody went.

Good question. Putting aside Molly White’s tweet from a few weeks ago, though she does raise a very good point ... I did want to share a podcast I just listened to It's Mike Brock of Block (seriously, filed in the 'can't make this up' bucket) - and no I don’t think he is Dave Brock's son talking with Tech Dirt's Michael Masnick. "Web5 is a new evolution of the Web that enables decentralized apps and protocols.