The Right to Be Free From Automation
A techno-humanist compass actively aims to point us toward paths in which the technologies we create broadly augment and amplify individual and collective agency.
Greg Beato • Superagency
The more we are asked to adapt to the biases of our machinery, the less human we become.
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
“Through mechanization, automation, cybernetic direction, this authoritarian technics has as last successfully overcome its most serious weakness: its original dependence upon resistant, sometime actively disobedient servo-mechanisms, still human enough to harbor purposes that do not always coincide with those of the system” (ADT, 5). In other word... See more
Matt Bluemink • From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths
What strikes us, though, is the seemingly reactionary nature of this human-made movement, when it could, instead, represent a pivotal moment of re-evaluation.
In a world of very capable technological tools, what sits at the center of our identity if not our production? What might happen if we untethered our value from our outputs as a matter of cour... See more
In a world of very capable technological tools, what sits at the center of our identity if not our production? What might happen if we untethered our value from our outputs as a matter of cour... See more