Slowing Down In A World Built On Speed - Jan 04

What do we lose when we search for ways to speed up our lives? In today’s 5 Minutes in Nature, Liz reflects on her use of AI to streamline the administrative tasks in her day. Yet, in doing so, she realises she’s also stepping away from the creative process—and from the lessons learned through trial and error. Our world is full of tools that promise greater convenience and speed, but the question remains: what do we sacrifice in exchange?

Reviews

Love the HedgeRow concept. It saddens me that technology and fast everything is becoming the norm in society. One day soon everyone will be a robot 🤖 and the old ways gone. Our brains will become idle and replaced by a chip . So glad I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s.
Thanks Liz 🙏🏼

Intriguing question Liz. And how fascinating about the hedgerow process-something we never consider here where I live! 🏜️🌵

Your insight into the loss of skills as a result of AI is really spot on I think Liz. What will happen to the human brain if we increasingly rely on AI to do the brain work? I experienced this very thing when I asked AI to translate a text into French (my first language). In an instant a perfect translation was produced that was way better than my first attempt without AI... Good to be aware, but what about the quality of the output? AI is better than my brain at speaking my language... 😒