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About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI.

This month is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which was later acquired by Google and became Google Docs. Next Tuesday, August 26, I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, to reflect on what it took to make.

And here are my takeaways from that conversation:

Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology." That is, it will follow the same kind of phased adoption as other transformative technologies, like the automobile, the personal computer,.

“The majority of today should always fear that it may find itself in the minority tomorrow and that its rules can be used against it,” he said. “What happens when this breaks down? What happens if the majority of today sees this as the last chance to take it all?”.

In my last Live with Tim O'Reilly interview, I talked with Marily Nika, Ph.D about product management for AI powered products. We covered a lot of ground, with lots of provocative questions from attendees. (Attendee questions are a key part of these events.) My favorite question.

Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier. "Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport . .

Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be taxed at least at normal rates, if.

I find that over the past year my @oura ring has gotten less and less accurate to my lived experience of my sleep. Each time they update it these days, it seems to get worse. For example I can wake up multiple times in the night from vivid dreams, and have it show little or no.

This is so true, and grokking it in fullness is a superpower.

RT @zjasper666: DeepMind got a gold medal at the IMO on Friday afternoon. But they had to wait for marketing to approve the tweet — until M….

Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion)

After listening to Andy Jassy’s comments  about using AI to deliver a better experience to customers and Ford CEO Jim Farley’s prediction of massive job losses from AI, it occurred to me that whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation.

RT @ArmandDoma: GAVIN NEWSOM: To the NIMBY movement that's now being replaced by the YIMBY movement, go YIMBYs. Thank you for your abundant….

Henry Farrell's rant about how science fiction has led Silicon Valley astray is well worth your time. Who knew that Hugo Gernsback (for whom science fiction's Hugo Award is named) was not only the founder of Astounding Science Fiction, but also a short lived magazine called.

Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.

RT @satyanadella: The real benchmark for AI progress is whether it makes a real difference in people’s lives — in healthcare, education, an….

RT @MaxCRoser: My chart on the history of three infectious diseases —smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was availabl….