30 november 2025
Concerns for the sciences: while updating my Ubuntu workstation, I glanced at my desktop of the local college campus, where the applied computer sciences building was. I took classes there and learned much of my formal education in math and programming in this building. It hurts me to think how AI has radically changed how information will be taught and developed. I still think an education is worthwhile, but somehow, it has been tarnished in so many ways already explored in other blogs and news articles. Now when I see the image, I think of how things evolve -- like my vision as I read this, no longer clear but warped and spotted, making me enjoy the vision I still retain. I no longer fear losing my sight, but I don't have any hope of regaining or retaining much of it for long.
When writing an earlier novel, I made some scenes about a character losing his eyesight while fixing networking cables in rural Wisconsin. That is a weighted metaphor, but now I wonder if it interests me the same.