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

by sari and · updated 1mo ago

The most existential question in crypto: what will be the relationship between tokens and communities? At stake: can DAOs bring virtue back to scaled organization? Or will they accelerate the economics-only mentalities that have been corroding society? A way-too-long-🧵👇
by Danny Zuckerman
twitter.com
sari added 2y ago
“You could say that it’s my responsibility” to exert self-control when it comes to digital usage, “but that’s not acknowledging that there’s a thousand people on the other side of the screen whose job is to break down whatever responsibility I can maintain.” — Tristan Harris
Alara added 1y ago
The Body is Not an Economic Apology
by Denise Hearn
embodied-economics.ghost.io
2 highlights
sari added 2y ago
LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
by L. M. Sacasas
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
6 highlights
Keely Adler added 2y ago
The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding | John Naughton
by John Naughton
theguardian.com
Sarah Drinkwater added 2mo ago
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.
from An Algorithm for Quality by Chris Best
sari added 1y ago
technology is not good or bad - it just is. the values we embed into the technologies we build are what ultimately matter.
Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
by umair haque
eand.co
7 highlights
sari added 2y ago
How did you find me?
howdidyoufind.me
sari added 1mo ago
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.
from To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist by Saffron Huang
sari added 1y ago
Sacred Design Lab — Soul-Centered Design
sacred.design
sari added 2y ago

The Body is Not an Economic Apology

LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment

The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding | John Naughton

from An Algorithm for Quality by Chris Best

Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations

How did you find me?

from To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist by Saffron Huang

Sacred Design Lab — Soul-Centered Design