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.comKeely Adler and
How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
wnycstudios.orgthread for what i want the internet / software to look, feel, and be like
spencer changmobile.twitter.com
Rituals are how we make meaning, personally and together.
In games studies, these worlds-within-a-world are called magic circles. A magic circle is the space where the game takes place.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in the directions we want to develop.
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
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.