? Is technology or culture the problem?
When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
Jack Stilgoex.comThe trouble with error is that we have a natural tendency to dismiss it. When Kevin Dunbar analyzed the data from his in vivo studies of microbiology labs, one of his most remarkable findings was just how many experiments produced results that were genuinely unexpected. More than half of the data collected by the researchers deviated significantly
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Yet, smartphones are much more than an accumulation of improvements in hardware and software into a pocket-sized device that we spend too much time looking at. They represent something entirely new. When we pick up our phones, our taps and swipes engage not only a system of hardware and software, but also something much bigger—a set of
... See moreNicole Aschoff • The Smartphone Society
The ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all
... See moreJames Bridle • New Dark Age
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.
Tweets From LM Sacasas · @LMSacasastwitter.comThe message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
LM Sacasasx.comTechnology is both the problem and the solution.
L'Atelier • Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
To see what you have the hope of changing, look out your window.
To see to what you will despair of changing, stare at your screen.
To see to what you will despair of changing, stare at your screen.