What are people busy with doing in offices, not all jobs require you to do different things everyday, and surely for the number of hours one tends to say one is putting in. So what if AI takes most of the mundane jobs, what does that mean. We spend 40 hours a week moving a spreadsheet from one folder to another, attending meetings to discuss the scheduling of future meetings, and perfecting the "I’m very busy" look. But let’s be real: AI is coming for the swivel chair. And honestly? Thank God. For decades, we’ve convinced ourselves that society would collapse if Upen from Accounting didn't manually enter data that a calculator could have handled in 1984. We’ve jammed our roads, sweated in elevator banks, and ruined our spines for "productivity." But the truth is out: most of us are just friction with a pulse. AI doesn't need a lunch break, it doesn't "quiet quit," and it certainly doesn't spend three hours a day looking at airfare it can’...
Frank uncle, thatz what I called him, my neighbor from my childhood, we moved into this new neighborhood and he had recently returned after a couple of years in the middle east. He never called it gulf like the others, maybe like the others he was not at Gulf. I think he was a mechanic by trade, but he was a superb handyman, there wasn’t any gadget he couldn’t fix, not that there were a lot in the middle class neighborhood. He worked with Usha Telehost or something that sounded like that, didn’t know when he went to work, he was always at home, I always saw him greased clothes, except on the odd Sundays or around x-mas. He wasn’t your average mechanic, there would always be a strange car, outside always, a car which was not normally sighted on the roads, but once in a blue-moon would spot it at Victoria layout, Benson town, where those old people with strange English names lived. He would have stories about the owner and the car. There were vintage a quarter century ago. Guess...