Humane Tech
Content and projects that inspire the creation of technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges
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Humane Tech
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Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family.
Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case.
Ideally custom built, but could be... See more
nametwitter.comthe honesty here is breathtaking - from the founder of daylight.computer
“One of the tragedies of doing humane tech is you lose the humanity in the process of surviving the world, of trying to build something, of trying to get it funded”
Opal - The #1 Screen Time App
withopal.com
As Ari Melenciano, a recent guest speaker at RADAR’s Into: Our Centaur Future, has written: “We’re currently unaware of many aspects of our own psyches yet are automating its design through technologies. The better we know ourselves, the better we’re able to design systems, technologies, lenses that intentionally empower our lights vs. blindly... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Cypherpunks Write Code
youtube.comBusiness model shapes outcomes. In a subscription based model, you build tools people use and pay for. In an ad-based model, you build engagement hacks.
As Tristan Harris put it:
“we've moved away from having a tools-based technology environment to an addiction and manipulation based... See more
LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.com
We are not against algorithms. We’ll enthusiastically use algorithms, or AI, or any other technology we can get our hands on, as long as we can use them to serve the human ends that we care about.
Chris Best • An Algorithm for Quality
technology is not good or bad - it just is. the values we embed into the technologies we build are what ultimately matter.