A McLuhan Tetrad about GitHub CoPilot
Summary
One constant is Harold’s focus on PKM as a discipline, with the application of thinking tools to the process of making sense of the world. Perhaps the best way to explain this approach is to quote McLuhan: As part of the course we have been set the challenge to select a technology or medium and analyse using this model. I suspect that the more general challenge with the RETRIEVE stage is having enough historical perspective and the ability to zoom out from the specific and everyday, to see the echos of the past. As a thinking exercise I can see the power of the tool - although I have seen these examples on Harold’s site for some time, I have never before tried to use the model to structure thought about some technology or medium, and it is definitely both a guide to, and provoker of, a deeper analysis. Would this kind of perspective be helpful in making business decisions or where to invest your energy?” - to which I would say that the focus on both the benefits and potential negative effects of a technology is a great place to start thinking about how it might affect the wider human / technical / management system it is operating within.