I saw a comment the other day that got me thinking. It referenced the fact that “back in the day”, we used to have our thinking time in such locations as the during our shower in the morning (but have since added a waterproof Bluetooth speaker as a dsitraction). And during our morning coffee before leaving for work (but now have a TV in the kitchen or a tablet to look at). On the train on the way to work, we might muse over an idea (since taken over by listening to or looking at a smartphone).
Etc etc.
So any quiet time we may have had to come up with thoughts, ideas, plans and so on is now truly out of the window, if you get my drift.
Lately we are being urged by – “whoever” – that to adapt to this brave new world we now apparently live in, we should be embracing AI with wide open arms to get inspiration on all things. We have never had it better.
Of course, “whoever” is mainly the billionaires who own the tech, the investors who have poured bucketloads of moolah into it and the tech geeks who need to promote it to keep their reason for living going. And they all want their version of a return.
However.
Van Gogh didn’t need ChatGPT to create art, and nor I am pretty sure did Michelangelo. Similarly, DaVinci didn’t have computers or even a calculator to imagine and then create all the wonderful things he did – and the list goes on.
So, I wondered; are we taking these electronic tools we use on a daily basis for granted, and our brains and the creativity it can obviously put together is atrophying?
If you can, have a think about it in a quiet place. I’d love to know your thoughts.