? Is technology or culture the problem?
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
Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world,
... See moreThe message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
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As the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze said, machines “express those social forms capable of producing them and making use of them.”59 Looking at the ways we interact with our smartphones reveals the social relationships and power structures that undergird modern society.