I recently watched the mini-series Zero Day with Robert De Niro as a former US President charged with trying to work out who was behind a cyber attack on American systems.
A ‘silent single’ has been released by musicians including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn and Kate Bush today as a protest against planned changes to copyright law which would make it easier for AI companies to use copyrighted work without a licence.
I heard this phrase a little while ago — healthy hedonism. And it struck a chord. I am a little hedonistic myself. Not in the drinking, drug-taking, breaking rules kind of way. In fact, I rarely drink, I don’t take drugs and if I even think about breaking a rule I get found out so I don’t bother.
Every few days Biden and Trump take a pop at each other over their respective ages. This brings up a lot of questions for me around age and wisdom, versus age and inability or unwillingness to adapt and change, versus age and cognitive decline.