How I Survived the Digital Apocalypse...Again. And Again. And Again.
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The next cognitive hop took me through the digital universe, and all the places where my fingers had filled screens with code, or whiteboards with designs, millions of mouse clicks, dozens of certifications, and nearly a million miles of travel as a consultant. And how, now, I spend part of each day interacting with AI, the penultimate enemy of humanity, at least according to science-fiction books, Hollywood, and the current panic flowing through the blogosphere. I say “penultimate” because there always seems to be a next one. It’s the end of the world as we know it… again.
During my morning routine, bouncing between ADHD and OCD, I counted seven technology events that were absolutely certain to destroy civilization. There might have been more, but after a while, they begin to blur together. So, I fired up my little box, about the size of the tape drive on that old Tandy machine, but with more computing power than a space shuttle, and began typing.
So here are my thoughts on the seven signs of the digital apocalypse.