Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Tech humanists approach tech with a single purpose in mind: to improve our individual and collective aptitude for building a loving world. We judge our creations by that standard alone.

Let’s strive to create technology that ennobles us by increasing love and justice in this world and in a future we might see or envision.

vulnerability is a willingness to experience “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.”

take computer science classes, and that’s all fine and dandy, but we really haven’t figured out, what does it mean to be a citizen of a digital world? We need to integrate that into our early education experiences.”

given that literal billions of dollars have been invested in facial recognition tech in recent years, much of which has been for the purported purposes of fighting crime and preventing dangerous behavior, is it really so unrealistic to think that social work—not exactly known as the most highly paid of professions—could prevent crime more effective

if you choose to speak truth to the powerful interests in your life and career—“some people will listen.”

but that day in San Jose, I saw an analog technological solution that required both desperation and plucky initiative. these people, in one of the richest areas of the richest country in the history of the world, were so individually and collectively disenfranchised, over such a long period of time, that they effectively set up their own refugee ca

the less we allow ourselves to rely on one another, the less we trust one another.

tech companies of all kinds profit by expanding it, offering so-called innovations that often amount to little more than monetizable ways of incentivizing us to choose isolation over connection, technological transaction over organic human interchange.