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Tom Haymes

@ideaspaces.bsky.social

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Technologist, writer, futurist systems thinker, photographer, educator: Building frameworks for our future of augmenting human intellect (thank you, Doug Engelbart) through technology coupled with the human imagination.

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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In my latest Substack at augmentingintelligence.substack.com, I argue that AI may have finally given us Vannevar Bush's associative trails. Read the first of four parts here: augmentingintelligence.substack.com/p/never-ask-... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

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Tom Haymes | Substack

Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have been exploring the intersection of #Engelbart's #augmentinghumanintellect with #AI on my Substack for the last few weeks. Start with open.substack.com/pub/augmenti... and continue through open.substack.com/pub/augmenti... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

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Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Government professor @ideaspaces.bsky.social has been doing some cutting-edge work in teaching and researching classes with AI. Here's our full conversation with him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpaA...

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The answer to any meaningful question isn't an answer. It's possibilities. Engelbart showed us the vision in the 60s. AI gives us the tools to complete his vision. bit.ly/returnofthec... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social #ThirdWAI #Engelbart #AIAugmentation"

The Return of the Creator

Building Our Own Semantic Spaces

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke) Magic is also how you control people. My latest blog on Engelbart, magic, and systems. bit.ly/systemstrike... @hrheingold.bsky.social @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social #ThirdWAI #Engelbart #AIAugmentation

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The System Strikes Back

Why we can't have human-centered things

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We are living with a punchcard mentality, stuck in an industrial paradigm. I'm launching my new Substack to explore a "third way" and how AI can become an optimized thinking partner. The first four posts are up. augmentingintelligence.substack.com @hrheingold.bsky.social @edufuturist.bsky.social

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Tom Haymes | Substack

Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How we can use AI to make teaching more human. The last in my "Building New Learning" Series is up at: wp.me/p8nV8X-Ak @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Building New Learning (Part 5 of 5): Back to Basics

For newcomers then the purpose is not to learn from talk as a substitute for legitimate peripheral participation; it is to learn to talk as a key to legitimate peripheral participation. – Jea…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The challenge of creating an AI transition while trapped between systems of student expectations and administrative requirements. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-Ah @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Building New Learning (Part 4 of 5): Navigating Conflicting Currents

The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His im…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Students need to learn to use AI as a partner if they don't want to be replaced by it. My latest blog: Teaching Augmented Humanity is up at: wp.me/p8nV8X-Ad @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

Building New Learning (Part 3 of 5): Teaching Augmented Humanity

“We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and …

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We need to get past the mimicry trap in education if we hope to prepare students for living in an AI-dominated world. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-A6 @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Building New Learning (Part 2 of 5): Beyond the Mimicry Trap

“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his ow…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We are training our students to be clarinet players when what we should be training them for is to be conductors. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-A2 @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Building New Learning Part 1 (of 5): Why I Blew Up My Class

My choices of what to attempt and what not to attempt were determined to an embarrassingly great extent by considerations of clerical feasibility, not intellectual capability.— JCR Licklider, “Man-…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Why we should prioritize the humanities in an age AI. My latest blog "The is No Why in AI": wp.me/p8nV8X-zZ @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

There is No Why in AI

“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” – Steve…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

How does just using AI pull you into the next writing paradigm? Follow me down the rabbit hole in my latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zR @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

The Looking Glass Writer: AI and the End of the “Perfect” Idea

“Give a man a book, and you entertain him for a night. Teach a man to write, and you give him crippling self-doubt for life.” — Andy Weir, 2015 I recently completed a research paper for publication…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

One of the key challenges in thinking about how to approach and understand AI is that we have taken a left turn from Enlightenment principles such as those of Kant and Condorcet. My latest piece explores that: wp.me/p8nV8X-zM @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

We Need the Enlightenment Now, More Than Ever

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people …

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We need to democratize critical thinking skills. AI could help us teach it to the next generation better. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zJ @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Democratizing Critical Thinking with AI Tools

“It is an epistemological mystery why traditional education has so often emphasized extensiveness and coverage over intensiveness and depth.” – Jerome S. Bruner As I continue to i…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

How systems and culture clash to create academic dishonesty, and how we should be using AI to overcome this reality. My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/the-end-of-academic-… @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

With AI, critical inquiry becomes more important than ever. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zt @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

“The purpose of education is knowledge, and yet education is blind to the realities of human knowledge, its systems, infirmities, difficulties, and its propensity to error and illusion. Educa…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Using AI to augment my workflow in redesigning my courses for an AI world. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-zn @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

Augmenting Course Redesign and Learning with AI

“We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and …

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The new digital divide is not AI, it's thinking and imagination. The last post in my Maker World Series of blogs: wp.me/p8nV8X-zh @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Part III: A Maker World

“Tools provide a path, a context, and almost an excuse for developing enlightenment, but no tool ever contained it or can dispense it. Cesare Pavese observed: to know the world we must construct it…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Using AI to lower technological barriers to enable humans to truly make their own worlds. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zd @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Making Opportunity with AI: Part II of the Maker World

“To extend our abilities to think and perceive in new ways, and to translate those into tools that enable others to think and perceive in new ways, is probably the essential part of the human…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

How technology democratizes creativity and how AI opens the door to a Maker World (part 1 of 3). My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-za @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Democratizing Imagination: Part 1 of the Maker World

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. B…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

How AI augments how we create with technology in unexpected creative directions. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-z6 @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social

Creating With Machines

“Every time there is a new technology, there is a paranoid faction of less than brilliant artists who feel that that’s the end of their career; who don’t understand that art never dies; that techno…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

How I used AI to upgrade my college class to be more AI-relevant quickly and easily. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-z2 @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Augment, Don’t Automate: Using AI to Speed Work and Learning

“My choices of what to attempt and what not to attempt were determined to an embarrassingly great extent by considerations of clerical feasibility, not intellectual capability.” – JCR Licklid…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We construct our technological realities. How we construct AI is no exception. My latest blog proposes Five Principles to get it right wp.me/p8nV8X-yY @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

We Will All Construct AI: Five Principles For Getting It Right

“Technological systems contain messy, complex, problem-solving components. They are both socially constructed and society shaping.” – Thomas P. Hughes “It’s the questions we can’…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What is the purpose of creative pain in an age of AI? My latest blog struggles with that question: wp.me/p8nV8X-yQ @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Nothing In, Nothing Out: Creativity, Art, and AI

“The work of art is valuable only in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future.” – André Breton As I’ve been exploring the AI world and using it for my own creative f…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are we ever going to embrace digital canvases and start thinking outside the paper box? My latest blog: "Unflattening Ideas" (ideaspaces.net/unflattening...) @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social @xkcd.com

Unflattening Ideas

“And today, the book is already, as the present mode of scholarly production demonstrates, an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in …

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

How our current copyright regimes shackle our ability to leverage, share, and analyze ideas (and what we can do to fix them). My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/unshacklingi... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Unshackling Innovation: AI, Copyright and Our Right to Share Ideas

“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” – Article 1, Sec…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What do shows like #Silo and #Severance tell us about the power of seeing? Can AI help us climb out of our own information siloes? My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/escapingthes... @edufuturist.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social

Escaping the Silo: How AI Can Help Us See

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore We are prisoners of narrative. This is because we struggle to make sense of a world that seems too complex for o…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We are still looking for AI's #durablemutation. My latest blog post at: ideaspaces.net/unifinishede... @hrheingold.bsky.social @narphorium.bsky.social @edufuturist.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

The Unfinished Evolution: We’re Still Waiting for AI’s Durable Mutation

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan The spreadsheet is a tool, and it is also a world view — reality by the numbers. If the perceptions of those who play …

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What is the future shape of AI? Humanized, decentralized computing like the PC revolution or the HAL 9000 vision? My latest blog: ideaspaces.net/the-ai-revol... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @c-engelbart.bsky.social

The AI Revolution Will Be Small

There is a world market for maybe five computers. – Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM in 1943 Knowledge is power and so it tends to be hoarded. Experts in any field rarely want people to understand w…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I have been exploring what a post-book world might look like in the context of AI. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Gutenberg Parenthesis coupled with my AI work inspired a recent blog ideaspaces.net/liberating-i... about extracting ideas from books. @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Liberating Ideas

Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools – with yesterday’s concepts. – Marshall McLuhan – I love books and have since…

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

We are at the beginning of mass AI. We should consider the possibilities instead of mourning compromised systems. The mass adoption of the PC is the best futuring guide. See my blog at: www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginn... @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

How we can fuse visualization and Generative AI to surface connections and conquer information and complexity overload, a video series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Generative Augmented Perspective

AI and visualization provide us with an opportunity to understand the world around us in new and essential ways. We have too much information and not enough ...

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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

AI coupled with concept mapping can create tools to help us see, learn, and solve complex problems exacerbated by information overload and hard to visualize connections between complex systems. New Video: youtu.be/omS1zG__Zkc @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Generative Augmented Perspective Part 3 - Future Perspective

In this video we discuss how AI could be combined with concept mapping to create accessible tools for humans to understand complex systems of information for...

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

In the latest Generative Augmented Perspective video I discuss how we can find the missing connections that are key to overcoming our information overload problems. youtu.be/93aoYQTryf0 @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Generative Augmented Perspective - Part 2 The Past Future

In this second part of the Generative Augmented Perspective series, we look at how mapping connections starts to make sense of information overload.

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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

In today's final video in the Technology Transformations series, I look at how humanity's drive to create, share ideas, and bond emotionally with technology will drive AI forward. youtu.be/uqwQTixcNUc @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jillhw.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

Technology Transformation Part IV - Mindful AI

What do past Technology Transformations tell us about how to design successful AI-based technologies to drive the next transformation and solve the problems ...

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Today's Technology Transformation video examines the incomplete societal revolution unleashed by the PC as we struggled with information overload and disconnectedness over the last 20 years. youtu.be/hL8tj1lig_U @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Technology Transformations Part III

The Personal Computer Transformation left us with challenges as we struggled to overcome the new floods of information that it unleashed. This video covers t...

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Part II of my video series on technology transformations focuses on the PC transformation of the 1980s/90s and how it aligns with the model set up in part I. youtu.be/2aVAlCK6Jqw @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social #technology #technology&society

Technology Transformations Part II - The PC Transformation

How the the PC transformation touch all three critical human drives to transform our world.

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

For a technology to become transformative, it must appeal to the human instincts to create, to understand, and to bond with it emotionally. My latest video is on how that process works, using the automobile as an example. youtu.be/LG_d280BsdE @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Technology Transformations Part I

For a technology to become transformative, it must appeal to the human instincts to create, to understand, and to bond with it emotionally. This video talks ...

Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

This week I am posting a series of short videos on transformational technology. What makes technologies that reshape how we live, work, and play different from those that fall beside the wayside? Today, I talk about why this is important for AI. @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Technology Transformations Intro

How do technologies transform societies? Understanding the human drives that shape our interactions with technology will help us predict the pathway that AI ...