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

The self, rather than representing a human being with an emotional life who deserves acceptance simply for being alive, is treated like an external product to be marketed, invested in, and sold.

human communication is seen as an increasingly sophisticated effort not simply to send messages but to maintain society through “the representation of shared beliefs.”

“It’s a manifestation of intense greed,” she says, indicating a partial point in favor of my thesis, and “it’s replaced religion in many ways,” specifying its propensity to drain followers’ time and resources.

we can each strive to be stars that come together to form brilliant constellations. When we all shine on one another, everyone’s way is brighter.

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.

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

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.