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New technology does not change a culture’s direction. It simply accelerates the change.
John S. Dickerson • The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare
the anxiety that technology will make people obsolete is familiar and pervasive.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
... See moreJohann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Somehow the sudden heights of success to which these young people climb make people fixate on biographical data points that are, upon reflection, absolutely unremarkable.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
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