Tech and Society
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Tech and Society
- It’s one thing to predict how technology changes, but quite another to predict how it changes us.
sari added 1mo ago
alex added 2mo ago
phoebe added 2mo ago
- If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
rob hardy added 3mo ago
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
juliana ong added 3mo ago
- An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.
I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:
First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See morefrom The Purpose of Things Isn't to Stop Doing Things. by Jack Raines
sari added 3mo ago
“the purpose of things isn’t to stop doing things”
“The computer screen bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences. It is so much our servant that it would seem childish to notice that it is also our master”
sari added 4mo ago
- The political scientist Henry Farrell has argued that we’ve had artificial intelligences before in the form of markets and states. A market is just a big information-processing, decision-making device. So, in a funny way, anytime I see that something costs $4.99 and I pay it, I’m giving up a kind of autonomy to the force of the market, right? I’m n... See more
from How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell by Julien Crockett
Isabelle Levent added 4mo ago
Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information. These are a few of the many characteristics of the Slow Web. It’s not so much a checklist as a feeling, one of being at greater ease with the web-enabled products and services in our lives.
juliana ong added 4mo ago
