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Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories
What makes people believe nonsense for which there is no evidence?
Brad Berens
Feb 5
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January 2023
Retro Futures: “Looker” (1981), Looking Back, Looking Forward
42 years ago, a murder mystery predicted digital twins and deep fakes: what did this howlingly bad movie get right and wrong?
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Jan 29
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Why Amazon Blew it Killing “Smile”
The country's largest ecommerce company ended a program that donated 0.5% of eligible purchases to charities customers selected. This might have…
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Jan 22
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Retro Futures, ChatGPT, & More
In this short, Thursday-night bonus issue, I dig into why a podcast about a teacher using (rather than banning) OpenAI’s ChatGPT program seemed eerily…
Brad Berens
Jan 20
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Artisanal Crap
As generative AI makes first-pass creation faster and easier, an unintended consequence is that humans may become less able to make great things.
Brad Berens
Jan 15
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What’s Curious about Microsoft and OpenAI
In a Thursday night bonus issue of The Dispatch, I dig into some non-obvious reasons why a ChatGPT integration with 365 and Bing would be a big win for…
Brad Berens
Jan 13
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CES, Paradigm Shifts, Spandrels, and Collateral Damage
What this week’s Consumer Electronics Show has to do with death of cursive writing in American schools, how to break down the elements of disruption…
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Jan 8
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My 2022 in Books
There’s a special magic in reading books versus magazines, websites, emails, or newspapers. Here’s my journey across the dozens of books I read in 2022…
Brad Berens
Jan 1
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December 2022
My 2023 Prediction… or Prayer
Many thinkers end each year with a cluster of predictions for the next year. I have just one—and it’s more of a prayer than a prediction—about trust.
Brad Berens
Dec 25, 2022
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What Happens When Companies Become Partisan?
Elon Musk’s right-wing posts on Twitter have plummeted the stock at Tesla, the public company where Musk is CEO. I discuss this with Lana McGilvray of…
Brad Berens
Dec 18, 2022
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Scarier than Skynet: AI and Persuasion
Most dystopian fantasies concern monsters we can see conquering us, but with new technologies will we even know if we’ve been conquered?
Brad Berens
Dec 11, 2022
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Experience Stacks, Competitive Advantage, and Netflix’s “Wednesday”
The new Netflix series about the daughter from The Addams Family going to a Hogwarts-style high school doesn’t ignore the earlier versions of the story…
Brad Berens
Dec 4, 2022
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