To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
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To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
we should directly tie the success of our technologies to how much they enable our humanity (as in, our positive human characteristics), and use this criteria to evaluate past, present and future technologies.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
A technologist makes reason out of the messiness of the world, leverages their understanding to envision a different reality, and builds a pathway to make their vision happen. All three of these endeavors—to try to understand the world, to imagine something different, and to build something that fulfills that vision—are deeply human.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
If our tools don’t better our collective humanity, we need new tools.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
We are an unprecedentedly self-augmenting species, with a fundamental drive to organize, imagine, construct and exercise our will in the world.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
The irony here is that to be technological is to be profoundly human. Humanity controls its fate by using tools and materials to survive and to self-realize. The human species developed by gradually accumulating complex, adaptive technologies passed on through cultural transmission, giving us essential tools. Not only does human life and survival d... See more