Whispering Earring

The recent release of Cluely reminds me of the Whispering Earring. This short story was written in 2012: ten years before ChatGPT, six years before Transformers, and four years before OpenAI was founded. I like fiction because it allows us to imagine things that could be, in the most vivid way possible.

The technology that Cluely advertised in their marketing video might be four or five years ahead, but you see traces of it today. I myself use Claude to improve the flow of my writing. I also use Cursor for code. There are definitely semblances to the Whispering Earring, and eerily enough, the implication that “you lose a part of your brain” might be true.

Will you wear the Whispering Earring?