May 10
Lessons From My Grandmother on Technology and AI
My grandmother, Rahel Gil, died in 2001. She never owned a smartphone, never had a social media account, never got a push notification, never experienced the particular joy of being added to a group chat she didn’t ask to be in. She typed her poems on a typewriter, made photocopies, and sent thing through the US Mail. And yet, reading through the archive of her work that I’ve been digitizing over…
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