As I sat in the 24-hour Apple store in the early morning to have a tech issue fixed, I couldn’t help but wrestle with my own dependence on technology and how that dependence sent me to Apple customer care before most people have even started their day. I wished that I didn’t need to be plugged into life so much. I wished that device detoxes occurred with more frequency. I wished that I could’ve been anywhere other than Apple this morning . . .
These thoughts were just starting to subside as I sat in silence admiring the living wall that grows in the Apple store, when Nicki–my tech savior–arrived to restore my phone and began discussing the perils of AI. “Oy, don’t get me started,” I thought as she began to share her fears. They very much echoed my own. (I’ve previously written about my concerns over the disparity between humanity’s maturity and technology’s advancements. You can read a very early blog post here: https://lisahedley.com/technologically-teenagers/.) But Nicki, who I disc…
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