The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
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The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
All you have to do is take out your phone to disappear into the frictionless universe of technology. And companies definitely want you to! AI is the newest terrain in a decades-long race to eliminate all forms of cognitive resistance - to build the most complete, most seamless, most profitable mind-melder that follows you across platforms, logs you... See more
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
Too many of today’s technological processes stem from this same urge to distance consumers from the reality of labor.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
There is a vast difference between understanding how answers are arrived at and simply being informed of their outcomes. As soon as digital computation was capable of the kind of complexities needed to model natural processes – to take on the tasks which were previously only possible in physical simulators, like the water computers – knowledge of t
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
And you know how it is when you’ve got some device on which you depend for all manner of little tasks that, perhaps, once you could have done without but which is now entirely essential to your well-being. You know how it is when that starts to go wrong, throws up its warning signs, groans and shudders, slows down, won’t start? The sense of aggriev
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