@simon I always think about Alan Kay who would talk about—Gutenberg had 250+ types to reproduce all the little flourishes that priests would add to their hand-copied books. Kay used that as a metaphor for how, whenever new technology emerges, it’s first used to solve the problems (or in this case “problems”) of the past before solving problems of the future. (Other examples of this are like, the first iPhone apps slavishly mimicking the physical substrate of notebooks or ledgers.)

I realize that as tech demos go, the podcast generator thing is likely mostly marketing flex, but it reminds me so much of all the little hand-written flourishes 😅