Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times | the Tyee
The only way to survive the century of Faust is self-awareness; if you don’t have clear virtues or the ability to know if technology is aligned with your values, you’re bound to get hijacked by awe, convenience, and emotion.
Highlighting the consequences of an automatic society running amok, the late philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler suggested that successive ages of technological proletarianization since the 19th century have resulted in human losses first in the knowledge of how to make and do (savoir-faire), followed by the knowledge of how to live (savoir-... See more
Ziyaad Bhorat • The Right To Be Free From Automation | NOEMA
We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
L’accélération du rythme de disruption technologique exacerbe le sentiment de désorientation et de catastrophe imminente. Le système politique libéral a été façonné au cours de l’ère industrielle pour gérer un monde de machines à vapeur, de raffineries de pétrole et de postes de télévision. Il a du mal à faire face aux révolutions en cours de la te
... See morePierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."
— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilson
Center for Humane Technology • CHT Welcome 2 of 3: The 6 Tenets of Humane Technology
