In secondary school, the Ovim Community League (OCL), the Ovim village’s community development unit, mandated that every kid must be exposed to shorthand. And the principal, Mr Ogbonnia, complained that no teacher was available to teach it. Within days, OCL hired shorthand teachers and sent them to the school. So, despite being a science student, I was compelled to learn basic shorthand.
Why did OCL do that? During the August meeting (a time in most Igbo communities where women return from anywhere they are to the villages to discuss the state of the villages), someone trumpeted how shorthand will guarantee 100% employment for boys and girls upon graduation. I attended a technical secondary school, built by the village, with motor vehicle technology, woodwork technology, etc offered in WAEC, and one would not have expected the shorthand to matter. But here, it was all about perception, and no one wanted to take any chances.
Good enough, Isaac Pitman shorthand had no impact; Microsoft Office destroyed it along with all the calls in typing and stenography.
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And a new dawn is here: “OpenAI, has just announced a groundbreaking new project: Sora, a text to video model that can generate realistic and engaging videos from natural language inputs”. Good People, with this, all of us could become better video creators, and within months, video creators will begin to fade like typists and stenographers.
The video creators economy has a frontal attack now, and if you are in this business, review your playbook because if Sora delivers something decent enough, not many will pay for most services. The implication of generative AI is massive as I have noted with Tekedia AI which understands me, and can summarize my speeches, with more than 98% accuracy within context. This is a new age: re-learn!
In secondary school, the Ovim Community League (OCL), the Ovim village’s community development unit, mandated that every kid must be exposed to shorthand. And the principal, Mr Ogbonnia, complained that no teacher was available to teach it. Within days, OCL hired shorthand… pic.twitter.com/1XrWimgxS4
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Video creation may go the way of photography, as smartphones arrived. Professional video creators will simply become a niche market, just like professional photographers. As the technology evolution continues, all the crafts that are not well grounded in expertise will easily get displaced, since their outputs are easy to replicate.
To stay relevant, you must constantly evaluate whether what you do still matters and for how long.