A new word for positivity and balance in our Times

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Artigenuity. In the midst of the new millennial excitement and angst about AI, I decided to consolidate my research and my thinking into a helpful repository of AI-related ideas. Please see my categories represented by the table and images above. I went searching for new domain names directly related to "AI." These were long gone. Next, I synthesized my own new word that ties together three key concepts of Artificial Intelligence, Artisanal Ingenuity, and I Am. The term "Artigenuity" was born as my new domain name. The root words are artisan, ingenuity, and a new word for most of us, genuity. 

Definitions are:

• Artisan:  a worker in a skilled trade, one that involves making things by hand and by heart. 
• Ingenuity:  the quality of being clever, original, and inventive.
• Genuity:  not fake or counterfeit; original; real; authentic...of being genuine. 

*And perhaps we might benefit from a change of "AI" terminology to "Augmented Intelligence."

No data-mining machine can possibly define (or diminish) what it means when I say, "I AM me"—to capture the sense and sensibility, the soulfulness, and the sorrow of being human. You must sit alone in a busy train station as passengers scurry by in every direction, feel the joy as a string ensemble performs Pachelbel's Canon, observe the frenzied traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor, escort your teenager to high school graduation, admire the cabinetmaker who runs his thumb along the edge of a new mahogany table, go wading in a babbling brook with a 4-year-old, feel your heart ache at the image of earthquake survivors reaching upward from the rubble then pulled to safety, and bow your head in gratitude for food enough on the supper table tonight.   

PURPOSE: To Honor Humanity as the Tide of Technology Rises...and to introduce a sublime yet powerful new word: Artigenuity. The discussion at this website will acknowledge the genius of computational analytics, the delight of human craftsmanship, and the finesse of the human touch--what inspiration and compassion can create. The site is not so much about INTELLECT and Artificial Intelligence. It is about the TALENT humans possess that cannot be simulated or replaced. It is about the EMPATHY we feel, and the humanitarian things we do for each other. We will applaud Artificial Intelligence and yet use it with caution. We will delight in Artisanal Ingenuity and enjoy it. We will forever champion the reality and the true origins of "I Am." 

A NEW LEXICON: This website creates a new context and lexicon for examining your life's work and contributions.  

Darby Checketts - Welcome and Career Bio. This is my author's "sand box" to help me formulate and share helpful new ideas with family, friends, and passersby who also love our planet and its inhabitants. Welcome! After college, I worked for two legendary American companies: Ford Motor Company and Digital Equipment Corporation, which is where I learned about computers and helped to build them. In 1985, I established my own consultancy and was privileged to serve over 300 organizational clients around the globe. I am now retired as the author of nineteen books, most of which are available for preview at Amazon.com. If you would like more background, Please Contact Us. By the way, you've probably figured out that I am a "senior" individual. This means I am a bit old-fashioned, but I do have a long and wide perspective on life that causes me to take these things seriously as they affect my family and friends. The photos at the top are personally symbolic. Thank you for considering my ideas.