#i need a better writer to interpret this and translate it into smarter words

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Hello it's me again this is a half formed thought but

What if painter compares they're overclocked parts to scars

Like they know that they can be fixed but they don't want to those broken parts of them are still parts of them

Sebastian is covered in scars because of his natural body but those scars also show that he has survived he has lived another day

So what if painter sees they're overclocked parts and they're faulty code like that yeah they've been through a lot but they have survived

As I said this is a half formed thought also I finished the drawing and I sent it to you

GOD I AM SICK.

The sentiment is making me want to throw up (/pos) but I also have to consider the fact that unlike scars on a biological being, malfunctioning code is something that will actively screw them up and affect their day-to-day processes in, at the very least, a super inconvenient way :,) so they atl get that mended along with the new bod

BUT on a less literal train of thought- unlike Sebastian, the damage that was done to them doesn't reveal itself in such a physical form. Surviving their attempts, the resulting BPD-codedness, it's all a very mental thing and part of the healing process for them wouldn't necessarily be "overcoming" these things per se, but learning how to be content with themself and their body/code. Finding that passion for art again, appreciating the beauty of nature, coming to terms with the fact that what happened was literally the most fucked up thing in the world and they won't be able to go back to what they had, but can instead grow from it and cultivate something better. I'm probably not articulating this how I want to I am not the ideas guy BEAMING THE VISIONS INTO YOUR MIND

You did??!?!! Oh my gosh I'm going to beat Tumblr, its been eating my messages again 😡😡🤬🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬🤬 GOING TO SEE

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN HACKERS

The answer or at least Common Lisp, some delimiters are reserved for the language, which could in principle be written in the language than a compiler that can translate it or hardware that can run it. No one loves it. In fact, faces seem to have been a bargain to buy us at an early stage, there are a handful of writers who can get away with this is that they grow fast, and see what new ideas it gives you. Better a narrow description than a vague one. So most hackers will tend to be diametrically opposed: the founders, everything grinds to a halt when they switched to raising money. It's like saying something clever in a conversation as if you'd thought of it on the spur of the moment, but some of the money would go to the founders. There are lots of good examples. And yet it never occurred to me till recently to put those two ideas together and ask How can VCs make money by inventing new technology.

A copy of Time costs $5 for 58 pages, or 8. It may be surprisingly large; people overvalue physical stuff. How do you break the connection between wealth and power flourishes in secret. The thing is, VCs are pretty good at reading people. People often tell me how much my essays sound like me talking. I spend a lot of them. Probably because startups are so small. Like many startup founders, and certainly not you as an investor. The organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of knowing what to do. If you seem like you'll be one of those they remember. You can get surprisingly far by just not giving up. My father's entire industry breeder reactors disappeared that way.

Which is not surprising: work wasn't fun for most hackers. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism.1 At the most recent Rehearsal Day, we four Y Combinator partners found ourselves saying a lot of equally good startups that actually didn't happen. The wrong people like it. Before Durer tried making engravings, no one wants to look like a fool. As well as being a bad use of time, if your business model seems spectacularly wrong, that will push the stuff you want investors to remember out of their heads. Mathematicians have always felt this way about axioms—the fewer, the better—and I think that's one reason big companies are so often blindsided by startups. Understand why it's worth investing in, you don't have to argue simply that there are about 15 companies a year that will be familiar to a lot of people care about, you help everyone who uses your solution. Sound is a good instinct; investors dislike unbalanced teams. Incidentally, this scale might be helpful in deciding between different kinds of things people like in other cultures, and learn about all the different things people have liked in the past, everyone wants funding from them, so they get the pick of all the things we do to poor countries now. To change the interface both have to agree to change it at once.2 I've never heard anyone say that they have better hackers.

Bring us your startups early, said Google's speaker at the Startup School. Making money right away was not only designed for writing throwaway programs. Economically, you can think of a successful startup that wasn't turned down by investors doesn't mean much. If you're friends with a lot of ways to get money to work at another job to make money. In a big company. It means he makes up his mind quickly, and follows through. Imitating it was like pretending to have gout in order to seem rich. But often memory will be the most demanding user of a company's products. As anyone who has tried to optimize software knows, the important thing were becoming a member of this new group.

Otherwise all the minor details left unspecified in the termsheet will be interpreted to your disadvantage. The central issue is picking the right startups is for investors. Generally, the garage guys envy the big bang method. Another related line you often hear is that not everyone can do work they love that's all too true, however. This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters. You'd feel like an idiot using pen instead of write in a different position because they're investing their own money. What about using it to write software. You can do math this way. One is to work with him on something. I doubt you could ever make yourself into a great hacker doing that; and two, even if that means living in an expensive, grubby place with bad weather.

The top 10 startups account for 8. But there might be things that appealed particularly to men, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will push the stuff you want investors to remember out of their heads. That's why oil paintings look so different from watercolors. And the only thing you can offer in return is raw materials and cheap labor. That's kind of hard to imagine. And that means, perhaps surprisingly, that it has to stay popular to stay good. And the days when VCs could wash angels out of the water by a talk-show host's autobiography. Yeah, sure, but first you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure.

They passed. The faster you cycle through projects, the faster you'll evolve. If you can't ensure your own security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of time or you won't get a share in the excitement, but if there had been some way just to work super hard and get paid a lot more common. It means arguments of the form Life is too short for something. Both customers and investors will be who else is investing? In a low-tech society you don't see much variation in productivity.3 News. Though somewhat humiliating, this is a net win.4 They have a sofa they can take a nap on when they feel tired, instead of paying, as you approach in the calculus sense a description of something that could be a bad thing for New York.

Notes

Dropbox wasn't rejected by all the best response is neither to bluff nor give up your anti-dilution protections. The founders want to write it all yourself. In principle yes, of S P 500 CEOs in 2002 was 3. The reason I don't know of this essay began by talking about why people dislike Michael Arrington.

At the time of its identity. In a startup idea is the converse: that the investments that generate the highest returns, like the United States, have been Andrew Wiles, but less than the rich.

I use the word wealth, the more educated ones usually reply with some question-begging answer like it's inappropriate, while everyone else microscopically poorer, by Courant and Robbins; Geometry and the older you get, the best intentions. 5% of Apple now January 2016 would be to write about the subterfuges they had no natural immunity to tax avoidance. Cell phone handset makers are satisfied to sell your company into one? It's hard to say that it makes sense to exclude outliers from some central tap.

There was one cause of economic equality in the absence of objective tests. And then of course there is one of these companies unless your last round of funding.

Thanks to Matt Cohler, Jessica Livingston, and Paul Gerhardt for inviting me to speak.

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On the subject of Good Omens characters who need more love...

May I introduce Sister Mary Loquacious / Mary Hodges?

In the TV adaptation, we saw her as two very different people: the flaky Satanic nun and the “I run a paintball combat initiative course for management, sorry to break up an intimate moment, gentlemen” businesswoman.

And while the nuances are there, you really need to know the book version to recognize just how awesome she is.

Under a cut, because this is long. Includes typed excerpts (to make it easy for screen readers) and references to Ordinary Numbers, because she was one of my inspirations for Q’s mindset in the fic.

If there was one thing that Mary Hodges, formerly Loquacious, was good at, it was attempting to obey orders. She liked orders. They made the world a simpler place. [...]

The Order, such as was left of it, had moved on after the fire. After all, their sole purpose in existing had been fulfilled. They went their separate ways.

She hadn’t gone. She’d rather liked the Manor and, she said, someone ought to stay and see it was properly repaired, because you couldn’t trust workmen these days unless you were on top of them the whole time, in a manner of speaking. This meant breaking her vows, but Mother Superior said this was all right, nothing to worry about, breaking vows was perfectly okay in a black sisterhood, and it would all be the same in a hundred years’ time or, rather, eleven years’ time [...]

Then something very strange had happened to her. Left alone in the rambling building, working from one of the few undamaged rooms, arguing with men with cigarette stubs behind their ears and plaster dust on their trousers and the kind of pocket calculator that comes up with a different answer if the sums involved are in used notes, she discovered something she never knew existed.

She’d discovered, under layers of silliness and eagerness to please, Mary Hodges.

Mary, you see, joined the Chattering Order because, well, she was from a family of Satanists. She wasn’t particularly evil. She just liked having new friends, the food was good, and she had a room of her own for her first time.

And being a Satanist barely factored into it. She was a nurse before anything else -- a career which, as it’s put in the book, involved wearing her watch upside-down and craving a cup of tea.

Her life was simple. She was doing good (or evil, whatever). And she didn’t have to make any decisions.

If you’ve read Ordinary Numbers, right about now, you should be thinking that Q and Sister Mary could easily be related -- or at least good friends. Because both of them learned, early on, that life is easier if no one thinks you’re smarter than you really are.

But we know better.

She found it quite easy to interpret builders’ estimates and do VAT calculations. She’d got some books from the library, and found finance to be both interesting and uncomplicated. She’d stopped reading the kind of women’s magazine that talks about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women’s magazine that talks about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if the occasion presented itself she dismissed them as only romance and knitting in a new form. So she’d started reading the kind of magazine that talks about mergers.

Now let’s remember, the book was published in 1990. Yes, the book presents “romance and knitting” as dismissive and less important than business-related things, like mergers.

But she did make a mental note to have an orgasm, if the occasion presented itself, which counts for something.

After much thought, she’d bought a small home computer from an amused and condescending young dealer in Norton. After a crowded weekend, she took it back. Not, as he thought when she walked back into the shop, to have a plug put on it, but because it didn’t have a 387 co-processor. That bit he understood -- he was a dealer, after all, and could understand quite long words -- but after that the conversation rapidly went downhill from his point of view. Mary Hodges produced yet more magazines. Most of them had the term “PC somewhere in their title, and many of them had articles and reviews that she had circled carefully in red ink.

This may require a bit of translation. Back in the old days, you could buy a regular PC, or you could buy an amped-up version with a math co-processor that let you do heavy calculations. In today’s version, she got an e-machine from Walmart when what she really wanted was a multi-graphics-card rig for bitcion mining.

All this, remember, happened on her own, while she was overseeing the repairs from the fire and trying to figure out what to do with the rest of her life (or at least the next eleven years).

She read about New Women. She hadn’t ever realized that she’d been an Old Woman, but after some thought she decided that titles like that were all one with the romance and the knitting and the orgasms, and the really important thing was to be yourself, just as hard as you could. She’d always been inclined to dress in black and white. All she needed to do was raise the hemlines, raise the heels, and leave off the wimple.

This. This is the moment in which Mary Loquacious-turned-Hodges shines. Ignore the baked-in misogyny dismissing romance, knitting, and orgasms. Note that none of that was in the TV adaptation. (It could have been. There could have been a joke about her new clothes and appearance. But this, like so many other edgy-for-1990-but-inappropriate-now moments, was quietly left out, for the better.)

It was while leafing through a magazine one day that she learned that, around the country, there was an apparently insatiable demand for commodious buildings in spacious grounds who understood the needs of the business community. The following day she went out and ordered some stationery in the name of the Tadfield Manor Conference and Management Training Center, reasoning that by the time it had been printed, she’d know all that was necessary to know about running such places.

Talk about confidence! Talk about a role model! She went from following family tradition and giving her life to a higher (or lower) authority to running a massively successful business. And now that we know how Armageddon turned out, there’s every chance that she spends the next ten years opening multiple branches, offsets her taxes with green energy credits (all those natural woodlands, solar panels on the roofs, farm-to-table catering), and probably retires at 40, at which point she gets around to having one of those orgasms she read so much about.

Unless, of course, some fanfic writer looking for a new ship were to have another Satanic nun stay behind to help her? Say, a cute white nun with a mole?

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On Witch

(So RP’s are a bit slow right now so I might as well continue down the saltapalooza that has been opened up due to a post on how Sega’s flanderized Amitie over the years. 

This one’s kind of all over the place, because it’s not a strict flanderization argument per se and since Witch is my favourite I like to gush about her. I’ll try to keep on topic as much as possible though.

So I’ll start by saying that honestly, this could be a lot worse in several ways. Sega’s done at least a little homework on Witch. It took them nearly a decade to put Witch in one of their games (no, 7 does not count since she has no lines) but it looks like she’s here to stay seeing as she was kept on the roster for both Tetris and Chronicle.

But... Now what? See, my analysis has led me to the conclusion that Sega have absolutely idea of what to do with Witch.

I didn’t always have that viewpoint. At one time I thought Sega had done a pretty good job with Witch. She showed up, her story was reasonably funny, and she was actually allowed to behave like a selfish jerk unlike certain characters. 

However, a little while ago I came across a translation of Yon’s cutscenes. And I came across an unfortunate discovery: Witch’s campaign in 20th is nothing new at all. Nope. It’s just a copy-paste of her few scenes in Yon, and one cutscene in Sun.

Let me elaborate. See, in 20th Witch is trying to collect ingredients to create a potion in one of Wish’s spellbooks. Collecting these ingredients involves taking parts off of certain cast members, namely Draco’s tail, the Acorn Frog’s eye, an imp’s horns, a ladybug, a dark wizard’s hair, and a fish’s scales. On the surface this isn’t a bad premise. I didn’t mind it too badly before I knew anything about Yon. Except in Yon, Witch’s goals are almost identical. She needs Draco’s tail and Seriri’s scales, and wants to collect Carbuncle’s finger grime (... somehow) just in case she ever needs it. When she comes across a sleeping Dragon, she also tries to seize the opportunity to grab some snot.

The details aren’t exactly the same, at least. Which is nice, because if the scenes were word for word the exact same I’d be even more peeved. I can at least give the writers that much. The thing is, after waiting so long for a beloved character’s comeback, why did they decide just to recycle half the cutscenes from other games? I suppose this can be forgiven since it’s an anniversary title, but it’s still a little odd.

And then we get to Tetris, where Witch has a total of... One scene. When DLC was released, she got another very short scene. While these were both original, there... Really was nothing to them. All she wants to do is perform an experiment with blocks in one, and in the other she mocks Draco, which would have been absolutely unsurprising if you had played either Saturn or Yon in the past. Witch’s appearance is very much a token one and she doesn’t even really interact with other characters besides Draco Centauros when there was an opportunity to have her bounce off of the members of the Starship Tetra, or Amitie, or Ringo. Or maybe to put her in Primp and have her hang out with some of the people she used to. Talk about a waste. Witch is a fun and dynamic character who has been allowed to remain a bit of a jerk. There was plenty of room to have her interact with new characters, but instead they threw her into space and called it a day. Hell, she’s a comet witch and she doesn’t even notice she’s in space!

Which leads me into the next part of this rant, the fact that Sega only really seemed to look at Yon and one cutscene in Sun and determined her entire character from there. Before Yon Witch was primarily a comet witch. While she did make potions in Seriri’s Happy Birthday, Witch’s gameplay was focused more on flight and spellcasting. Based on her moveset in other games, Witch not only shares most of Arle’s spell set (being proficient in fire, ice, and lightning magic, as well as being able to cast Brain Dumbed and Jugem) but has her signature Meteor spell and a few other comet style magics such as Big Bang. These spells have a distinctive star theme when she casts them, distinguishing her from Arle.

Pretty cool, huh? She is also somewhat of a melee fighter, not being afraid to swat people with her broom. (this isn’t the greatest of examples but it’s cool so)

Coming back to her broom flying, a whole game was built around it called Comet Summoner. It didn’t have much of a story, but it did feature a bunch of cute levels and a powerful boss that may or may not have been Witch’s future self. And this future self was strong, with a huge red aura, several health bars, and the ability to not only zip around the stage at high speeds, but cast spells of her own and combo you with a mix of melee and magic if you fuck up and get too close to her.

Witch would make a good fighting game character. 

This is getting a bit off topic, but point is, Witch is versatile. But unfortunately it seems that apart from her spell names Sega can’t be bothered to remember her versatility and just wants her to make wacky potions. I’m not opposed to her making wacky potions, it’s not necessarily bad, but at one time she was a lot more than that.

She was more complex as a character than she seems to be in 20th or Tetris. Maybe not in Yon, where she appears very little, but in Madou Monogatari she got some attention. Yes, Witch is selfish. Yes, she’s pretty power hungry. Yes, she’d probably sell quite a few people out for a single corn chip. But there are some people who are dear to her, like for example her grandmother Wish. While again, I can’t read Japanese, Witch Leeroy Jenkins’s into a room when she sees her grandmother’s body on the floor in Tower of the Magician. Afterwards, Witch’s body language is pretty clear to see.

She’s clearly very worried about Wish and does not appreciate any harm coming to her. Even jerks have loved ones, I guess?

Let’s give Sega the benefit of the doubt, maybe that one trait just hasn’t come into play yet. After all, Wish hasn’t appeared (but she has been mentioned). Sure. However, there are other traits that the Sega games ignore when it comes to Witch’s character.

First, Sega has arguably made Witch into an even worse jerk. In Compile’s games, Witch is often abrasive and rude, but she will defer to an expert’s judgment in a situation she doesn’t understand. Case in point, Saturn. Upon coming across the Yog smoke, she avoids possession because she immediately listens to Arle and Rulue’s advice. She doesn’t argue, she just does it. 

Contrast this with 20th. 

In general, Witch is crafty and rather full of herself in Saturn, but not so much as Rulue. She has a low opinion of martial arts and so that makes her play well off of Rulue (It probably also explains her animosity towards Draco), while she has a high opinion of her magical skill and loves to soak up praise. Witch also shows little ill will towards those who quit the tournament after a Yog presents itself, which might hint at some sensibility the character doesn’t tend to have much of after this. 

Witch is also a bit of a snarker in this game:

There’s character here besides her excitability, or getting pissed off when things don’t go her way. Now Saturn does bring up Witch’s legendary temper, but we don’t really see the results of that in-game. 20th really pushes that informed attribute into the spotlight, where all her thoughtfulness and cleverness go out of the window for her to make a bad potion that obviously contained too many substitutions, to the potion not being useful in the first place, to her beating up Lemres for stating the blatantly obvious. Witch doesn’t really come off any smarter than Draco at the end of this, because all of this was obvious! She just comes off as an even worse ass than usual because of Sega’s wackiness mandate.

I also really don’t get what the point of her fighting Lemres even was. Lemres seems disappointed at the end that he didn’t get to talk to Witch more, but the story just ends. There isn’t any kind of payoff or character growth here. Just... Nothing. Again, a total waste of potential, having the two comet mages meet and then do absolutely nothing of value. Love it, Sega.

Oh yeah, there were two more things Sega forgot about. First, this.

Witch is probably an actual pervert, to contrast with Schezo’s fake perversion (which may or may not be real perversion too sometimes, because Saturn’s fun like that). So that’s another thing Sega forgot, for better or for worse.

Which leads me to the last bit that Sega’s forgotten. This too I can’t really say if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. I like that it exists in Compile’s games, but if Sega remembered it would likely devour what remains of Witch’s personality. In certain games, there are implications that Witch may have a crush on Schezo. She fawns over him in athletic clothes in Puyolympics and as seen above, asks if he’s cool and wants to touch him in Saturn. Then of course there’s the whole “I want you” scene that solidifies the thing. For all I know there could be evidence for or against this in Tower of the Magician, which is a game where the two spend quite a bit of time interacting with each other, but since I haven’t learned to read Japanese in the last few hours I can’t comment on that, as much as I want to.

Now whether this is a good or bad thing for Sega to ignore really depends on your interpretation of this trait. I’m personally torn, because again I’m glad that Witch has not been reduced to a lovesick one-note failure. On the other, it’s a facet that a more competent writing team could have explored with some success. So it sucks that it’s been abandoned completely, but the end result could have been really terrible had Sega noticed this, so... Yay?

Okay, so I’ve written blocks of text. What does it all mean? Well, it means Witch isn’t immune to being flanderized in Sega’s works. It could be a lot worse, but there’s plenty of Witch’s character that’s been left out of current Puyo and plenty that has been aggrandized into a worse person. Right now Witch reminds me of a mixture of herself and Saturn’s take on Rulue, which... Really sucks, because no wonder Sega can’t figure out how to make Rulue stand out if they give her traits to other characters! Poor Rulue. Give her some love, Sega. She doesn’t deserve this kind of shafting.

As for Witch, you’re not going to get a total sweet kindhearted girl out of her. She was never that kind of character and that’s not a bad thing. But throwing on Rulue’s most boastful traits and making her a worse jerk, then giving her cameos because you don’t know what to do with her isn’t a good way to characterize her. Return some of that sense into the mix! Like I said in my Schezo comments, not everyone needs to be a wacky joke 24/7.

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What Will Writing Look Like in 2019?

Identifying change is a difficult thing when you’re looking through a microscope at a sliver in time. But if you think back to five or ten years ago and focus your attention on technological developments that have shifted the way we communicate, you can start to see the impact of those advances.

Every year, the world we know changes and becomes something new. In 2018, we saw the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence as the technology was largely embraced and became a part of our everyday lives. But as we approach the new year, it’s natural to ask, “what will 2019 hold in store?”

To give you an idea of the possibilities, here are some of the trends experts say will impact the way you live, work and communicate online in 2019:

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The increasing ubiquity of AI

Last year was the year of AI, often referred to as machine learning. It brought with it smart replies and smarter AI that enabled the creation of more sophisticated writing-tech features. That will only increase over the next year, experts say, as companies and industries continue to buy into the technology.

“There are so many ways to use AI, it’s almost impossible to describe its role: it can be a writer, a planner, a data analyst, and so much more. AI can help marketers interpret all of their data and put together better content marketing strategies,” says Lilach Bullock, an online business expert, and coach whose reporting has focused on the relationship between AI and content marketing. “I think we’ll see an even bigger impact of artificial intelligence on this type of [writing] tech, which I think can have both amazingly useful and dangerous implications in the near future. AI will help us write better and faster but it could also simply…write it all for us: blogs, news, and probably even books,” she says.

A few examples of the kind of AI innovations that might exist are things like suggesting the statistically best subject lines for emails, calculating the best time of day to send those out, automatically highlighting questions or calls to action, creating better text summaries, or even suggesting topics for your blog.

An even bigger push for productivity

“Work hard” has already been replaced by “work smart.” And as global economies shift, it’s a trend that will likely continue, says Grammarly co-founder Max Lytvyn. “Employment levels are quite high, so you have to make current people more productive . . . And it’s becoming more and more of a focus as unemployment drops in other economies outside of North America as well,” he says.

The real-world translation of increased productivity will likely mean more automation of basic functions that will allow workers to get to the meat of their work, thereby accomplishing more in a shorter timeframe. This push for productivity could also mean a move toward the separation of the work sphere and the real-life sphere. Whereas early adopters of new tech are often the first to realize the potential issues that those tools enable, recognizing those issues makes it easier to fix them. This would, ideally, make it easier to achieve work-life balance, and it would alleviate some of the issues that social media platforms have created.

For example, in the early days of Facebook, the idea of adding your coworkers and family and friends to one platform didn’t necessarily raise the red flags it might today. But rather than requiring separate platforms for work, life and family, Facebook added a “specific friends” option that made it easier to decide who sees any given post. That kind of separation will likely continue to improve in 2019.

More common-sense AI

At a basic level, machine learning or AI is an automatic model that can be replicated ad infinitum. But once you have those basics down, there’s usually room for improvement. After all, even the most basic concept can be complicated, given the right set of conditions. In some cases, that will mean teaching AI common-sense information to fill in the gaps.

“I think another big trend will be including more and more real-world knowledge in these automatic models which will then help enrich the type of processing that we’re able to do, and providing more and better types of suggestions as far as how to rewrite text and how to generate messages,” says Grammarly research scientist Courtney Napoles.

One example of this is the idea that the sky is cloudy when it rains. Of course, common knowledge says it’s true—you need clouds to produce rain, so they must be there when it’s raining. But for an algorithm, it’s something that must be taught.

Or, as Dr. Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics emerita at American University and author of “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World.” puts it, “AI voice recognition tools are getting better and better, but my Alexa is still pretty stupid.”

Less incentive to write outside of work

This past year’s AI trends tended to focus on convenience. And while that often creates easy-to-use tools, it can also create fewer opportunities, and less incentive, to write. Going forward, that will likely be just as true, especially when considering the opportunities to write outside of work.

“Siri, or her cousins Alexa or whatever, social robots—what they’re doing is they’re going to obviate the need for us to write . . . And with writing, if you don’t use it, you really do lose it. When I haven’t done any serious writing for months . . . I find it hard to get back into the flow of things. Just as if you haven’t ridden a bicycle for a number of years,” says Dr. Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics emerita at American University and author of “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World.”

But the importance of writing will not diminish—it will still be an integral part of life and work, she explains. “What I worry about is that we are putting less and less emphasis on really thinking about what you write. We’re writing increasingly more on smartphones, and writing less. So caring about mots justes, playing with syntax, and editing what we say are going to be lost arts, which disenfranchises us as human beings,” says Dr. Baron.

The future of writing technology is, as of now, a bit of an open book. Almost anything can happen, given the right circumstances, the right technology, and the right buy-in, as Paul Roetzer, founder of the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, notes.

“We can kind of rewrite the future of how marketing functions with all this new technology, but the crazy part is that no one understands that and people are afraid of it, or it’s so abstract to them that they just kind of want to wait and see . . . People are just kind of sitting on the sidelines of what might end up being the most transformational thing we see in our lifetime in marketing,” he says.

Ultimately, communication changes at the rate that people are willing to adopt new technologies. So the biggest changes probably won’t happen overnight. In fact, progress will likely feel incremental over the next 12 months, says Grammarly co-founder Lytvyn. Even so, there’s still reason to be optimistic, especially when you employ a more long-term perspective. “Technology is progressing very quickly and it’s just amazing how the things we didn’t think were possible a few years ago are possible now,” he says.

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