BeatyAmerican

07/20/2026

05/27/2026

Worth noting,

Who could have guessed 22 years ago when Facebook launched or 19 years ago when the first iPhone was unveiled the profound effects on our culture. The technology’s promise that, with regular updates, we could stay connected to our grade school classmates, a former neighbor, a cousin who lives thousands of miles away. Not only that, we could find communities based on our passions, regardless of where we lived.

To some degree that has been true, but the technology has also been blamed for political divisiveness and insurrection, children’s suicides and a flood of misinformation that threatens to undermine our public health — just to name a few.

Now here comes artificial intelligence, another technology reshuffling how we approach life and work. I think it’s fair to say this revolution is being met with more apprehension than the last one. New York Times book reviewer Dwight Garner recently wrote that AI is “here to either a) help with our homework, or b) end the world.”

The techno-optimists appear to be currently outnumbered by the techno-skeptical and techno-exhausted, but each of them has a vision of how things will unfold. But, alas, what the future holds is unknown.

➡️ Read the full note from our publisher at https://gridphilly.com/blog-home/2026/05/01/publishers-notes-into-the-unknown/

✍️ Alex Mulcahy

05/18/2026

P

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