Understanding the work before automating it: A survival skill for the AI age

Understanding the work before automating it: A survival skill for the AI age

I graduated from university in May 1995 with a degree in mass communication. This is the same year that Netscape came out and radically transformed all forms of mass communication. While not everything I learned in university became obsolete overnight, a lot of it did. There was one class I particularly enjoyed during my senior year – audio editing. Interestingly (perhaps only to me and other audio nerds), we were the last class at my university…