We Still Use Paper

This argues that despite successive technological revolutions, people still rely on paper, keyboards and word processors for thinking and writing because each medium has inherent qualities that shape what gets produced. Rejecting AI wholesale is not a Luddite stance; instead, the right response is selective adoption. The piece insists creators first define what they want to make and then pick tools that fit the work, because some technologies displace older ones for particular uses but never eliminate every prior medium.

On specifics, it critiques treating chat-style AI as a universal interface and warns that brute-force compute applied to narrow, domain-specific problems often feels inefficient. Better results come from giving AI structured tool access, integrating it into existing software, and building considered products that corral productive outputs. New technology should enable things that weren’t possible before while remaining shaped by human choices and design. The perspective is practical and pro-AI: embrace and mold AI where it helps, but recognize it won’t, and shouldn’t, fully replace paper. The piece is written from a solopreneur viewpoint and notes the author used a mind-mapping app to compose it.