Tech and Society
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Tech and Society
... See moreThe problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital liberty turned out to be more corporate talking point than reality. We took the agenda-setting function away from individual power brokers and gave it to trillion dollar tech companies, whose faceless
How will future historians describe our era?
We’re the guinea pig generation when it comes to technology. We’re at the cusp of this transformation that, in the grand scheme of things, has only just started.
It has already reshaped everything, from social norms to how we navigate our careers. We’ve embraced technology in such an unbridled way.... See more
We’re the guinea pig generation when it comes to technology. We’re at the cusp of this transformation that, in the grand scheme of things, has only just started.
It has already reshaped everything, from social norms to how we navigate our careers. We’ve embraced technology in such an unbridled way.... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Kirsten Green
I used to be much more of a technological determinist, where I believed that the course of history would play out according to what was technologically possible, and that technology shapes our world in a strong way. I've come to appreciate that culture actually plays such a large role in shaping our world. The ways in which people decide to use... See more
The Old is Dying
from Li Jin’s interview on Sublime’s inaugural zine. culture is smarter than we are.
In its desperate hunger for clicks, much of the media has decided to endorse a maximalist interpretation of what AI might do. I’ve cataloged them before: disrupt every industry, eliminate poverty and need, send us off of into the stars, end death. Or, alternatively, threaten everything we’ve built, provoke dystopia, exterminate humanity. Take your... See more
Our Dystopian AI Future Isn't Skynet. It's a "For You" Algorithm Stomping on a Human Face Forever
On the Social Media Ideology - Journal #75 September 2016 - e-flux
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