The Short and Long of It

It seems the topic of artificial intelligence will be with us for some time to come. Like social media that came before, it too is purported to be life altering. In many significant ways, it likely will be. But with each new wave of innovation people have been all too ready to abandon the old, the slow, even the proven. One notable byproduct of social media is that it tends to reduce communication to shorter and shorter spurts rather than thorough discourse. But life can be complex, and complexity rarely lends itself well to truncated communication. Remember “long form”? It is comparatively expansive content that helps us deal with complex issues with thoroughness. It is being forgotten with each passing generation for whom the cell phone and stunted communication are never more than a lov…