Human Being in an Inhuman Age

“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”

resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and our cultural exhaustion are working together, defending decadence and closing off escape.

disturbed by the narrative of technological inevitability — of unstoppable advancement toward a world of human obsolescence — that removes the human responsibility to think critically about how technologies are built and introduced into society