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Principles of Calm TechnologyTM

I. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention

II. Technology should inform and create calm

III. Technology should make use of the periphery

IV. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity

V. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak

VI. Technology should... See more

But that was small potatoes. What Google – and the rest of the tech sector – needed was a massive growth story, a story about how their companies, worth trillions of dollars , could double or triple in size in the coming years. There's a kind of reflexive anti-capitalist critique that locates the drive to tell growth stories in ideology: "endless... See more

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The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto – trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users