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THE NEW TECHNOLOGIST is concerned about capital, only in the sense that it is a tool that furthers the production of technology — where THAT goal is towards an improvement in our DIGITAL QUALITY OF LIFE.
Digital Quality of Life
A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right.... See more
Byrne Hobart • How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?
AI only sees the past, not the future.
AI only sees the pattern, not the purpose.
AI only sees the data trail, not the human story.
AI only sees compliance, not commitment.
AI only sees keyword matches, not understanding.
AI only sees what you wrote, not what you thought.
AI only sees message response times, not friendship.
AI only sees your calendar... See more
AI only sees the pattern, not the purpose.
AI only sees the data trail, not the human story.
AI only sees compliance, not commitment.
AI only sees keyword matches, not understanding.
AI only sees what you wrote, not what you thought.
AI only sees message response times, not friendship.
AI only sees your calendar... See more
AI only sees the data trail, not the human story
The perils of designing for scale
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
I find an interesting parallel here to the ideas James Scott proposes in Seeing Like a State (which we covered back in RE #4): a top-down, central planning-style of design can't effectively predict the diversity of user needs. It turns out, contra to the "expert architect", that the users know best what they need from their space. And often even... See more
Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
Software for Your Mom
Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. Seen in this light, the obsession with personalization of Web School software is an apology for the obvious... See more
Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. Seen in this light, the obsession with personalization of Web School software is an apology for the obvious... See more
