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Tom Haymes
@ideaspaces.bsky.social
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Technologist, writer, futurist systems thinker, photographer, educator: Building frameworks for our future of augmenting human intellect (thank you, Doug Engelbart) through technology coupled with the human imagination.
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How does just using AI pull you into the next writing paradigm? Follow me down the rabbit hole in my latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zR @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social
The Looking Glass Writer: AI and the End of the “Perfect” Idea
“Give a man a book, and you entertain him for a night. Teach a man to write, and you give him crippling self-doubt for life.” — Andy Weir, 2015 I recently completed a research paper for publication…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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One of the key challenges in thinking about how to approach and understand AI is that we have taken a left turn from Enlightenment principles such as those of Kant and Condorcet. My latest piece explores that: wp.me/p8nV8X-zM @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
We Need the Enlightenment Now, More Than Ever
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people …
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November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We need to democratize critical thinking skills. AI could help us teach it to the next generation better. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zJ @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social
Democratizing Critical Thinking with AI Tools
“It is an epistemological mystery why traditional education has so often emphasized extensiveness and coverage over intensiveness and depth.” – Jerome S. Bruner As I continue to i…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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How systems and culture clash to create academic dishonesty, and how we should be using AI to overcome this reality. My latest blog: https://ideaspaces.net/the-end-of-academic-dishonesty/ @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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With AI, critical inquiry becomes more important than ever. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zt @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
Critical AI
“The purpose of education is knowledge, and yet education is blind to the realities of human knowledge, its systems, infirmities, difficulties, and its propensity to error and illusion. Educa…
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September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Using AI to augment my workflow in redesigning my courses for an AI world. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-zn @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social
Augmenting Course Redesign and Learning with AI
“We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and …
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September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The new digital divide is not AI, it's thinking and imagination. The last post in my Maker World Series of blogs: wp.me/p8nV8X-zh @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Part III: A Maker World
“Tools provide a path, a context, and almost an excuse for developing enlightenment, but no tool ever contained it or can dispense it. Cesare Pavese observed: to know the world we must construct it…
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July 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Using AI to lower technological barriers to enable humans to truly make their own worlds. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zd @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Making Opportunity with AI: Part II of the Maker World
“To extend our abilities to think and perceive in new ways, and to translate those into tools that enable others to think and perceive in new ways, is probably the essential part of the human…
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July 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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How technology democratizes creativity and how AI opens the door to a Maker World (part 1 of 3). My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-za @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Democratizing Imagination: Part 1 of the Maker World
“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. B…
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July 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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How AI augments how we create with technology in unexpected creative directions. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-z6 @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social
Creating With Machines
“Every time there is a new technology, there is a paranoid faction of less than brilliant artists who feel that that’s the end of their career; who don’t understand that art never dies; that techno…
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July 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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How I used AI to upgrade my college class to be more AI-relevant quickly and easily. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-z2
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Augment, Don’t Automate: Using AI to Speed Work and Learning
“My choices of what to attempt and what not to attempt were determined to an embarrassingly great extent by considerations of clerical feasibility, not intellectual capability.” – JCR Licklid…
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June 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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We construct our technological realities. How we construct AI is no exception. My latest blog proposes Five Principles to get it right wp.me/p8nV8X-yY @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
We Will All Construct AI: Five Principles For Getting It Right
“Technological systems contain messy, complex, problem-solving components. They are both socially constructed and society shaping.”  – Thomas P. Hughes “It’s the questions we can’…
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May 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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What is the purpose of creative pain in an age of AI? My latest blog struggles with that question: wp.me/p8nV8X-yQ @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
Nothing In, Nothing Out: Creativity, Art, and AI
“The work of art is valuable only in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future.” – André Breton As I’ve been exploring the AI world and using it for my own creative f…
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April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Are we ever going to embrace digital canvases and start thinking outside the paper box? My latest blog: "Unflattening Ideas" (ideaspaces.net/unflattening...)
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Unflattening Ideas
“And today, the book is already, as the present mode of scholarly production demonstrates, an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in …
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April 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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How our current copyright regimes shackle our ability to leverage, share, and analyze ideas (and what we can do to fix them). My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/unshacklingi... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Unshackling Innovation: AI, Copyright and Our Right to Share Ideas
“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” – Article 1, Sec…
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March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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What do shows like #Silo and #Severance tell us about the power of seeing? Can AI help us climb out of our own information siloes? My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/escapingthes... @edufuturist.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social
Escaping the Silo: How AI Can Help Us See
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore We are prisoners of narrative. This is because we struggle to make sense of a world that seems too complex for o…
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February 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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We are still looking for AI's #durablemutation. My latest blog post at: ideaspaces.net/unifinishede... @hrheingold.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
The Unfinished Evolution: We’re Still Waiting for AI’s Durable Mutation
We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan The spreadsheet is a tool, and it is also a world view — reality by the numbers. If the perceptions of those who play …
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February 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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What is the future shape of AI? Humanized, decentralized computing like the PC revolution or the HAL 9000 vision? My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/the-ai-revol... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social
The AI Revolution Will Be Small
There is a world market for maybe five computers. – Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM in 1943 Knowledge is power and so it tends to be hoarded. Experts in any field rarely want people to understand w…
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February 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I have been exploring what a post-book world might look like in the context of AI. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Gutenberg Parenthesis coupled with my AI work inspired a recent blog ideaspaces.net/liberating-i... about extracting ideas from books. @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social
Liberating Ideas
Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools – with yesterday’s concepts. – Marshall McLuhan – I love books and have since…
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January 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We are at the beginning of mass AI. We should consider the possibilities instead of mourning compromised systems. The mass adoption of the PC is the best futuring guide. See my blog at: www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginn...

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January 30, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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How we can fuse visualization and Generative AI to surface connections and conquer information and complexity overload, a video series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Generative Augmented Perspective
AI and visualization provide us with an opportunity to understand the world around us in new and essential ways. We have too much information and not enough ...
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December 19, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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AI coupled with concept mapping can create tools to help us see, learn, and solve complex problems exacerbated by information overload and hard to visualize connections between complex systems. New Video: youtu.be/omS1zG__Zkc @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Generative Augmented Perspective Part 3 - Future Perspective
In this video we discuss how AI could be combined with concept mapping to create accessible tools for humans to understand complex systems of information for...
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December 11, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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In the latest Generative Augmented Perspective video I discuss how we can find the missing connections that are key to overcoming our information overload problems. youtu.be/93aoYQTryf0 @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Generative Augmented Perspective - Part 2 The Past Future
In this second part of the Generative Augmented Perspective series, we look at how mapping connections starts to make sense of information overload.
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December 4, 2023 at 3:09 PM
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In today's final video in the Technology Transformations series, I look at how humanity's drive to create, share ideas, and bond emotionally with technology will drive AI forward. youtu.be/uqwQTixcNUc @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jillhw.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social
Technology Transformation Part IV - Mindful AI
What do past Technology Transformations tell us about how to design successful AI-based technologies to drive the next transformation and solve the problems ...
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November 17, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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Today's Technology Transformation video examines the incomplete societal revolution unleashed by the PC as we struggled with information overload and disconnectedness over the last 20 years. youtu.be/hL8tj1lig_U @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Technology Transformations Part III
The Personal Computer Transformation left us with challenges as we struggled to overcome the new floods of information that it unleashed. This video covers t...
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November 16, 2023 at 6:23 PM