? Is technology or culture the problem?
by Andreas Vlach · updated 1mo ago
? Is technology or culture the problem?
Andreas Vlach added 1mo ago
- “What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.” – Yuval Noah Harari
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"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn
Andreas Vlach added 4mo ago
Intelligence is moving from human-scale to machine-scale. AI will be to the mind what the automobile was to the city… https://t.co/NcBspApI1tAndreas Vlach added 4mo ago
- The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
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- When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
Andreas Vlach added 4mo ago
The return of the visual culture at the expense of the written revives the old medieval subordination of the text to the pictorial. Although people today are not predominantly illiterate, in as much as mass schooling separates us from the Middle Ages, many utilise reading and writing for the most mundane utilitarian tasks and have turned away from
... See morefrom The Medieval Internet by Jakob Linaa Jensen
Andreas Vlach added 5mo ago
- But a shift has happened nonetheless: the Internet used to reflect our real-world lives and the physical world. Increasingly, our real lives and physical worlds are just a reflection of our digital ones.
from The Glory of Achievement by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Andreas Vlach added 5mo ago
- Thesis: We are not addicted to the internet or smart phones. Rather, our will power is utterly depleted by the persistent cognitive, emotional, and moral demands they make of us.
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