Disempower Yourself.

You may have noticed, if you do not live in a cave, that the corporations in charge of your access to technology really want you to use artificial intelligence. It will empower you, they say.

And it certainly will empower you, in the same way that a motorized wheelchair would empower an able-bodied person.

Think how much better your life will be! Instead of walking everywhere, you can sit back and let the chair do all the work, as long as you stick to the carefully prepared “accessible” routes, the ones your chair is capable of navigating. But the chair will make things so easy for you that you won’t want to go anywhere the chair can’t go.

Soon the muscles in your legs will atrophy, and you will not be able to walk on your own. And then won’t you be glad you have the chair!

This is what the purveyors of technology want to do to your brain. They want you to learn to rely on artificial intelligence for the simplest mental tasks, like writing an email. Right now you are still capable of thinking for yourself, and that brings no money into the corporation at all. You must be taught to outsource your thinking, so that you eventually cannot think without a subscription that automatically renews annually.

Wheelchairs are a boon for people who cannot walk, and artificial intelligence is a boon for intellectual tasks of which we are incapable ourselves. What Dr. Boli would suggest, however, is that you should not give up the intellectual capacity you already have without a fight.

The only way to keep your brain in working order is to use it. Refuse the motorized wheelchair if you can walk on your own. Since the tech companies are bent on pushing artificial intelligence harder and harder, that may mean you have to give up technology altogether.

In other words, pick up a pen.

Here we are in International Steel Pen Appreciation Week, and you might be asking yourself, How are steel pens relevant in today’s technological world? The answer is that they are an antidote to today’s technological world. Open a bottle of ink, pick up a pen, and take your mind back.