Mind Mapping and AI: From Personal Insight Capture to Strategic Empowerment Since the late 1990s, mind mapping has been a digital proxy for representing Tony Buzan's freewheeling paper-based maps, giving them enhanced features, first for editing and then for all manner of activities from financial control or project planning. At Serious Insights, we’ve consistently argued … [Read more...] about Mind Mapping and AI: From Personal Insight Capture to Strategic Empowerment
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Foxit PDF Editor+ Review: AI-Powered PDF Solution for Teams and Enterprises
Foxit PDF Editor+ Review Adobe Acrobat created the PDF market and has long set the standard for document exchange, but that dominance comes with baggage: high costs, complex licensing, and a sprawling feature set that often exceeds what most organizations actually need. The market isn’t short on alternatives, but most simply mimic Acrobat’s core functions without challenging … [Read more...] about Foxit PDF Editor+ Review: AI-Powered PDF Solution for Teams and Enterprises
Avast One Individual Review: Powerful Solutions with Too Many Buying Options
Avast One Individual Review Most of the time, I don't even think about Avast. That is a good thing. It sits in the background, monitoring my devices for malware, viruses, ransomware and other threats. It rarely finds any. An occasional visit to a sketchy website or the receipt of a virulent e-mail evokes its wrath as it blocks me from clicking through or cautions me from … [Read more...] about Avast One Individual Review: Powerful Solutions with Too Many Buying Options
TheBrain 14 Review: Artificial Intelligence Meets Real Intelligence
TheBrain 14 Review I have had a long relationship with TheBrain. I started using the visual organizing app in the 1990s while at Hughes Aircraft to help manage the complexity of IT programs—similar to the work I did for the TDRS program that resulted in early ISDN video conferencing between Greenbelt, MD and El Segundo, CA and the installation of the first transfer protocol … [Read more...] about TheBrain 14 Review: Artificial Intelligence Meets Real Intelligence
Co-Existing with the ChatGPT: Standing Up to AI’s Attack on Writing and Art
Writing in a world with ChatGPT Several jobs and their associated skills face existential threats from automation. Conventional wisdom, and assertions from inventors, almost always focus on automating activities that detract from the human experience by removing physical burdens or eliminating mind-numbing tedium. Automation frees humans, it is argued; it unleashes them from … [Read more...] about Co-Existing with the ChatGPT: Standing Up to AI’s Attack on Writing and Art