impacts of technology
Tech-lash
The term tech-lash refers to a growing backlash against large technology companies and their influence on society. It encompasses widespread negative sentiments toward the power of "Big Tech," particularly regarding issues like data privacy, misinformation, and the societal impacts of technology. This phenomenon has led to increased public
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knowyourmeme.comIs an online relationship as honest, open and palpable as a face-to-face relationship? Does the absence of taste, touch, smell – or blood, sweat and tears for that matter – make a difference in the quality of what is experienced? Is immersion in a video game or chat room the same as playing a game on a wet grassy field, or congregating with an in-p... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
The upshot of device-mediated encounters is that they may be benign in single instances but collectively they are alarming. The larger question is where we are headed with such encounters. How do they impact our capacity to love, to be present to one another, to sort out what deeply matters about oneself and life? What impact do they have on human ... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?
JUSTICE THELOT • Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc.
You need to understand how much companies abhor paying humans. They want nothing more than to pay for AI instead — because computers can’t unionize.
It doesn’t matter if AI gives the worst results ever seen — they’ll keep trying until they get something barely acceptable.
David • Coca-Cola’s New AI-generated Christmas Ad Is as Bad as You’d Expect
it is the duty of the historian to show the differences between the immediate and long-range implications of technological developments.
thinkpolit.com • Technology and History: “Kranzberg’s Law”’
