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“As technology gets more advanced and more convincing, our idea of a communal reality might genuinely become archaic,” Williams says. “This election has really taught me that we are very much sucked into these worlds that we create on our phone, when the real world is right in front us.”
Mia Sato • Pro-Harris TikTok Felt Safe in an Algorithmic Bubble — Until Election Day - The Verge
Technopoly by Neil Postman is a must-read for exposing our blind spots about the faith we put in technology
Scott Berkun • How Design Makes the World
This is technology’s second philosophy, and it is orthogonal to the other: the expectation is not that the computer does your work for you, but rather that the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficiently. And, with this philosophy, comes a different take on responsibility. Pichai, in the opening of Google’s keynote, acknowledge... See more
stratechery.com • Tech’s Two Philosophies
This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and bou... See more