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
Many people knew this before, but the last three years have hammered home the fact that we cannot protect things that we don’t empathize with. If we don’t care about the value of other lives, whether human or animal, then we won’t be motivated to protect those lives.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
River Kennax.comif the future is not beautiful I’m not sure people will be drawn to it, or indeed fight for it…I would also suggest that we see beauty in the dignity of humanity insisting on the best of itself, the beauty of becoming wiser, of emancipation, and not just in nature or in artistic artefacts.