Entangled Intelligence — Real Life
Ecology teaches us that we exist by virtue of our ties to one another and to the more-than-human world, and that those ties are strengthened, not weakened, by the inclusion and equal participation of each and every member of that network. The strength and resilience of computational networks, the inherent power of distribution and interconnection,
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Humans as ecological: edged and edgeless, and deeply relational
Ecological Organisations pt 2: Being Ecological (Edgeless And Edged, And Deeply Relational)
Our unconscious tendencies are the control surfaces by which technology will shape our lives.
Jacob Ward • The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
Corresponding to the price of authenticity, the tech-vex can also exact a price on human dignity. It begs the question, to what extent does machine-mediated living gratify, ennoble? Can it replace the sense of fulfilment that people feel when they attain a skill or achieve an insight? Can a work put together by artificial intelligence match the elo... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
An ecology of technology, then, is concerned with the interrelationships between technology and the world, its meaning and materiality, its impact and uses, beyond the everyday, deterministic fact of its own existence.