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Thanks! I haven't heard of any person in that list - other than Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart. Oh and literally just this week I heard about Edward Said and his book Orientalism. Well I'm going to enjoy studying the works of these writers and thinkers.

> at the root we're all living in fractured relationship with each other

Indeed, and technology plays an increasing role in mediating and shaping those social relations. That's very relevant in the context of ChatGPT becoming a kind of oracle and object of worship.






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