? Is technology or culture the problem?
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.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • The Glory of Achievement
Technologies shape culture, politics, and economics as much as the other way around. For instance, most of our own social and governmental institutions today—prisons, hospitals and nursing homes, welfare systems, even schools—were shaped both literally and figuratively by that great embodiment of the Industrial Revolution: the factory.
hedgehogreview.com • The Rise of Vetocracy
“The problem is that so many people spend so much time online that they fail to remember that people are all human at the end of the day, and treating someone else with a modicum of respect is actually a far better way to get them to see your position than flinging at them with fire and vitriol.” — Carl Benjamin
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.
L. M. Sacasas | Substack
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
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, constr
... See moreIt took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the
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