I feel this so strongly in my mind. Angelou is one of the greatest writers we'll ever see.
While you're older than me (I'm just South of 40) - I feel like we are fundamentally of the same generation, in terms of the rise of the machines, competent in the exponential digitisation of everything, while simultaneously able to see the value in the traditional media, mediums, and objects that the present is built upon.
Causality, context.
With the black box of the digitals, I fear that causality and the why (and perhaps, the meaning) will be lost.
She's one of the greats, for sure! Those who've experience both worlds, the modern and new have a great responsibility. It’s like we’re bilingual. Maybe the challenge is to keep anchoring AI’s outputs to human values, like storytelling or shared history, so we don’t lose the thread of meaning in the noise and chaos of this transformation?
It may sound abrupt, but I'm glad I won't have to be around to deal with much of the fallout (or success) of it in 50-70 years. :P Or, I'll be too senile by that point :P
It's going to be a very different world to be sure! Even when I'm "elderly" in 20-30 years society will be drastically different from ours today. It won't be all bad.