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Resistance Is Futile: The Myth of Tech Inevitability
This moment feels big like religion. I won’t fall limp and complacent, rejecting AI completely and bemoaning the fall of civilization. No, I’m going to use what small agency I have as a craftsperson to shape the cultural narrative around what we should build with this fantastical bizarre machine made of all of human thought through the lens of my o... See more
Digital technology is treated as a force of nature, without an agenda, inevitable and unstoppable. The past that has survived in the minds of the current generation is one that reflects what has happened rather than what is possible.
Lizzie O'Shea • Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
It has become fashionable to say that where science and technology have created problems, it is only more scientific understanding and better technology that can carry us past them.