? Is technology or culture the problem?
Technologies shape and are shaped by society. They are neither the problem nor the solution.
I believe that the solutions to the problems created by technology is not less technology, but better technology.
Kevin Kelly • Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will
The 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
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Technology is both the problem and the solution.
L'Atelier • Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
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
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