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How empathy and creativity can re-humanise videoconferencing | Aeon Essays
It could be said that the success of our human future requires the pursuit of narrative, reflection and empathy. To be sure, we can move in that direction through education, civic discourse and therapy. But if the design of our digital technologies helped us get to where we are, then design can also help get us somewhere better. Indeed, there are a
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It turns out that today’s video conferencing technology doesn’t emulate how people interact with others in person.
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Social technology is ostensibly about connecting people, but it doesn’t often foster the empathy that’s needed for real human connection.
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But ultimately, what makes our lives meaningful is the empathy and intent we get from human interactions — people responding to one another. With AI, he says: “It feels like there’s someone on the other end. But there isn’t.”
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The one thing technology doesn’t provide us with is a sense of how to make the best use of technology.