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We expect more from technology and less from each other.
Sherry Turkle • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
social controls to preserve “democracy”,
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
people to feel as though they’re ceding more and more of their autonomy when it comes to deciding how they direct their attention. No one, of course, signed up for this loss of control.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism
Many issues people have with social networks and technology arise from a mismatch between the nature of these networks and the legacy corporate structures that govern them.
Erik Torenberg • Better Aligning Value Creation & Value Capture
Now Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all mean well. They want to help us. The filters-at-source are there to personalise service to us, to make things simple and convenient for us. The risks that Pariser and Zittrain speak of are, to an extent, unintended consequences of well-meaning design.
JP Rangaswami • On firehoses and filters: Part 1
We face danger whenever information growth outpaces our understanding of how to process it.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
If differential enforcement emboldens the overlooked group more than it deters the scrutinized group, it may only make the problem worse.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace.