First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
Technologies shape and are shaped by society. They are neither the problem nor the solution.
rather than declare a technology or institution either good or bad by its nature, we recognize instead the possibility that a technology or institution might serve useful ends until it crosses certain thresholds of scale, volume, or intensity, after which it stops serving the ends for which it was created and become, first, counterproductive and th
... See moreThe Convivial Society • Life Cannot Be Delegated
If you ban technologies you’re not able to figure out how to steer them for our benefit. Social Media, is still in its infancy. We haven’t yet figured out how to use it properly
David Perell • Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future
Careful technology
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‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’