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The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
a crisis of confidence in the relevance of the humanities.
from The Business Romantic by Tim Leberecht
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- A less cynical way to think about the postmodern tech revolution is that it hasn’t completely subsumed the real, brilliant, chaotic world, but merely emphasized it as vital and precious. Artificial intelligence, in my view, continues this tradition. The only singularity it can truly achieve is one that understands humanity at its most inhuman (and ... See more
from #138: Do you pass the Turing test? by Haley Nahman
Britt Gage and added
- Our most advanced technologies are not enhancing our connectivity, but thwarting it. They are replacing and devaluing our humanity, and—in many different ways—undermining our respect for one another and ourselves. Sadly, this has been by design. But that’s also why it can be reversed.
from Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
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- the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more
from Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge by Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added
- what sounds very simple actually requires a very serious breaking away of an ideology – spread loudly by Silicon Valley over the last few decades – that claims that technology is the solution to it all, that we can engineer our way out of the world’s problems, and that the world, society, and humans are nothing more than just another machine that n... See more
from A Frictionless World Is Boring As F*ck by Thomas Klaffke
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"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."
— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilsonfrom CHT Welcome 2 of 3: The 6 Tenets of Humane Technology by Center for Humane Technology
simon added
- A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”
from Yearn in Review by Daisy Alioto
Alex Dobrenko and added
There are problems that humans rather than computers will have to solve not because computers couldn’t eventually solve them, but because in real life, and especially in organizational life, we keep changing our conception of what the problem is and what our goals are
from Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin by Geoff Colvin
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