{"id":223079,"date":"2026-03-13T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/is-technology-changing-us-for-the-better\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:00:11","slug":"is-technology-changing-us-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/is-technology-changing-us-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Technology Changing Us for the Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/content\/commentary\/a-few-things-that-freaked-me-out-recently\">Is Technology Changing Us for the Better?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/content\/commentary\/a-few-things-that-freaked-me-out-recently\">https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/content\/commentary\/a-few-things-that-freaked-me-out-recently<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thetilt.com\">www.thetilt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For this week\u2019s issue of The Tilt, I actually had a different article ready to go. It was another deep dive into my thoughts on AI. I\u2019ve been working on a much larger thesis around this topic for a couple weeks now, sharing pieces of it with a few smart people and getting feedback.<\/p>\n<p>As I was ready to hit publish, I decided to go a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been going down the rabbit hole of AI and I\u2019m too close to it right now.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been reading the past few issues, you\u2019ve probably noticed a pattern. We\u2019ve talked a lot about artificial intelligence and how it\u2019s going to reshape content creation, marketing, discovery and, honestly, a lot of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>All of that matters. I believe most of it.<\/p>\n<p>But when you spend enough time with something you start to see it everywhere. So this week I wanted to step back and talk about something slightly different.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, a handful of small things have happened that have honestly freaked me out a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing dramatic. Just little moments that made me pause.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Epic Face<\/h2>\n<p>The first one happened at Epic Universe in Orlando. We had an amazing time. The Harry Potter ride alone is worth the trip. Absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the rides in the Dark Universe area caught my attention for a different reason.<\/p>\n<p>Before you get on the ride, you have to store your stuff in a locker. Pretty standard for theme parks. But instead of using a key or a wristband or a pass code, the locker opens with your face.<\/p>\n<p>You walk up to a camera. It scans your face. The locker opens.<\/p>\n<p>When the ride is over, you walk back up to the same locker, stand in front of another camera, and it recognizes your face and opens again.<\/p>\n<p>It worked perfectly. Smooth. Fast. No friction.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing wigged me out a little bit.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A YouTube Kid<\/h2>\n<p>The second moment happened yesterday at the airport. I was sitting two chairs away from a kid who couldn\u2019t have been more than four&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/content\/commentary\/a-few-things-that-freaked-me-out-recently\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Technology Changing Us for the Better? https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/content\/commentary\/a-few-things-that-freaked-me-out-recently Publish Date: 2026-03-13 04:55:00 Source Domain: www.thetilt.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thetilt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Newsletter-Ideas-for-Joe-Google-Chrome-2026-03-12-at-7.53.37-PM.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223081,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223079\/revisions\/223081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}