Techocalypse

AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards

Anu Atluru • Make Something Heavy.

Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination

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Kris De Decker • Power

Addressing those who are critical of using the technology in this way, Zuckerberg said, “If you think that something someone is doing is bad, and they think it’s really valuable, most of the time, in my experience, they’re right and you’re wrong, and you just haven’t come up with a framework yet for understanding why the thing that [they’re] doing... See more

Vincent Sanchez-Gomez • We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out.

So, I just haven’t figured out how to make AI work with my life? Lame.

I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age

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Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along with the near destruction of our ability to focus.

1 The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.

2 It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.

3 It should do work that is clearly and demon-strably better than the one it replaces.

4 It should use less energy than the one it replaces.

5 If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body.

6 It

Bring on the phone free school legislation. You wouldn’t let your kid smoke cigarettes in your class, so why are we letting them consume electronic brain cocaine? Make it state-wide, make it nation-wide.

Gilbert Schuerch • My School Banned Phones for the Year. Here's What Happened

“if your new software no longer runs on old hardware, it is worse than the old software.”