impacts of technology
Is 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... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
We live in a frictionless age in which process is typically obscured by results. You press a few buttons on your phone, and a car or dinner comes to you, a moving blue dot on a map, hiding a whole range of human effort.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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”’
“When it comes to community in particular, digital technology presents two interrelated dilemmas: (1) Digital technology has created the ability — and ensuing pressure — for us to “optimize” and be productive always, which often comes at the expense of time and energy spent building deep community. (2) Many digital technologies offer us the... See more
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul
Corresponding to the price of authenticity, the tech-vex can also exact a price on human dignity. It begs the question, to what extent does machine-mediated living gratify, ennoble? Can it replace the sense of fulfilment that people feel when they attain a skill or achieve an insight? Can a work put together by artificial intelligence match the... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
When I look at the surge of investment in AI chips right now, I see no reason to doubt that Moore’s Law won’t continue for a very long time. That means more advanced chips, which means more computing power that we can apply to all sorts of uses — [both] AI and all sorts of devices. And that means we’ll be using even more semiconductors because the
... See morebigthink.com • Inside the World's Most Important Company
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
Now you can literally set machines to do half your desk-job. “New task, next Tuesday write all-staff email about working smarter not harder plus reminder to not to leave dirty mugs in the sink, send at 8am.”
Every boaster and busybody can now churn out infinite words nobody wants.
Words will become an even-more devalued currency. We’re all going to
... See moreIan Whitworth • The Great Same-Ening
A homogeneização do conteúdo provocada pelos LLMs torna o mesmo tipo de conteúdo, sumarizado, disponível a qualquer pessoa. As palavras originais, aquelas que tivemos esforço pra pensar e escrever, podem se tornar moeda sem valor se começarem a se confundir com essas, geradas por sumários automáticos. Como nos diferenciar daquilo que a inteligência artificial gera? Ou será que nós é que somos parecidos com IA?