Sunday Letter - let's leave the typewriter behind
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Does AI make documents and apps vanish?
(this one is a bit long, but then I'll be on break until late August) Documents have changed a great deal in the past 30 years, right? We had typewritten letters, which were slow and formal, then we had desktop word processing, which was faster and more fun (remember outline fonts?), and then we had web docs and things got collaborative and even more informal. We've even had emojis in texts being used as documents. But through all of these changes, a document hasn't really changed. It's less formal, but it's no smarter. It's still a fixed object, some linear text that you read through.…
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