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| (C) Deepak Gaba |
How the talk veered, from concrete quality, project schedules and deliverables - to arresting misuse of AI features, screen times, and brain rot- is not so uncommon to the site “meetings”! The comforts of being surrounded with all that we love- building materials, possibilities, owners, contractors et al- and the comforts of the site office- the feeling of beings Gods is not difficult to move onto!-)
The concern at hand was our own role in the rising mediocrity amongst the younger of us - with the rampant misuse of the technological tools, AI tools at forefront- and the concern of how this would lead forward. Yeah- the benefits of technology being understood well, as well as the mediocrity not being universal to all. Well understood was the smartening of many of the Youngers.
The explanation to this was led by Deepak, the owner- who put the healthy mind space In a circle , the mind in the technological space as a square- and as the square would grow, the circle shrinks. No
Prize for guessing that the square is about living lives in the Technology! His theory- those living in the square box- numbers of them would grow! Exponentially so. It’s so comfortable to be in it.
The result would be a future where there would be very few of the rounds left- fulfilling Nietzsche s promise of the rise of the superhuman!! Rising above the slaves around!
scary. Yeah- he believes there is a dot too- where the round mind has to escape to- for growing itself!
As he put it, the only way to stall the process is - to point to the others the result that being in the square would lead to! I do not agree with him- about the leaving out of those who do not understand the dangers of being in the Box & thereby be condemned to the slavish side of being! There is, as educators, a way that is to be found- to largely make awareness of not being caught in the trap of it all.
Yeah!
Anyways- Let’s make great buildings meanwhile- forever, or as long as we can- with character, passion and human idiosyncrasies!!
