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On Understanding Power and Technology
The one thing technology doesn’t provide us with is a sense of how to make the best use of technology.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
If we succeed in our mission, the role of technology in people’s lives will never be the same. Technology will be less invasive and distracting, as people learn how to set boundaries and tailor their exposure to information based on what serves them. But technology will also be more intimately intertwined with people’s work and lives, as they give ... See more
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: The 10-Year Vision
