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
“Instead of building machines to isolate us from the bleak future we have foretold for ourselves, I would rather spend my energy trying to build the world I actually want to live in. A world that places people above profit, that looks at the promises of automation and artificial intelligence and sees leisure and self-actualization, not increasingly
... See moreWhile we have a tendency to define ourselves based on our likeness to other things—we say humans are like a god, like a clock, or like a computer—there is a countervailing impulse to understand our humanity through the process of differentiation. And as computers increasingly come to take on the qualities we once understood as distinctly human, we
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Technologists should focus not just on the engineering minutiae but on helping to imagine and realize a richer, social, human future in the broadest sense, a complex tapestry of which technology is just one strand.