j.a.ginsburg·Mar 31, 2023Learning Curve: Living (or not) with AliensTrade out the word “Artificial” for “Alien” and AI starts to make more sense. There is nothing fake about the intelligence, although there…
j.a.ginsburg·Feb 24, 2023A Fork in the Future: Fighting Darkness with DesignThe Russian invasion of Ukraine changed the world. One year in and the lucky ones have only witnessed unspeakable atrocities, some…
j.a.ginsburg·Feb 23, 2023Mad Bots: Generative AI Wants to Sell YouWhat happens when a bot (“Bottie!”) seems to know you so well, it can write a convincing love letter?
j.a.ginsburg·Feb 9, 2023Max Headroom is RealOh good gracious. The predicted happened: “Deepfake” news anchors, aka “digital puppets,” that can be programmed to say whatever a…
j.a.ginsburg·Jan 29, 2023The Art (& Tech) of the Message: from print to promptSeveral years ago, I curated a large exhibition on the evolution of the modern newspaper — the world’s first mass medium—as a graphic…
j.a.ginsburg·Jan 22, 2023Ask the Next Question: from ChatGPT to Star Trek (via Davos, HAL & Cave Dots)After a week of Davos panels, furrowed-brow magazine articles and breathless podcasts, I have come to think that ChatGPT could be an…
j.a.ginsburg·Jan 19, 2023seasons, seeds, past, soon…Two small vases filled with Trader Joe’s “filler” flowers are all that stand between me, sitting at the kitchen table, and a dreary January…
j.a.ginsburg·Jan 16, 2023The Power, Peril and Truth about TechnologyI met Laura Forlano a couple of times when she was a professor at the Institute of Design. In 2018, I saw her lecture as part of the…
j.a.ginsburg·Dec 19, 2022Flickers of (Applied) Hope: on alchemy, adjacencies, peripheral vision and the future“If it exists, it’s possible.” That quote by John Grier, a legendary Forbes editor, has served as a mantra for me this year. In the face of…
j.a.ginsburg·Feb 14, 2022Flickers of Change: Epigenetics, Cymatics & RegenerationMy friend, a film buff, came up with the challenge: Connect the dots between a film — fictional or documentary — and the theme of…A response icon1A response icon1
