Sixth Law: Technology is a very human activity—and so is the history of technology.
Sixth Law: Technology is a very human activity—and so is the history of technology.
‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
For the foreseeable future, the ongoing technological explosion will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones; there won’t be a “last invention that man need ever make.” In one respect, this is reassuring, because, contrary to Good’s claim, human intelligence will never be “left far behind.” But, in the same way that w... See more
newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
This is how technology should work: starting with a human need, and a purpose, technology should extend outwards with the intent of expanding the human, not confining or reducing.
John Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds
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.