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Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

#culture #economics #progress #speed #technology | Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

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What Was the TED Talk?

#criticism #culture #futurism #technology #ted | “TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future – the future of science, the future of the environment, the future of work, the future of love and sex, the future of what it means to be human – that never materialized. ... If the research wasn’t entertaining or moving, it was seen as somehow less valuable. TED’s influence on intellectual culture was ‘taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing’, Bratton said. ‘This is not the solution to our most frightening problems – rather, this is one of our most frightening problems.’”

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Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker

#ai #artificial #capitalism #culture #machine #technology | <blockquote>As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?</blockquote>

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There Is No A.I.

#ai #culture #data #ethics #technology | There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

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The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic

#communication #culture #preservation #technology | <blockquote>Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

The Zoom Gaze — Real Life

#communication #conferencing #culture #technology #zoom | <blockquote>Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

The Spell Checkers Agenda

#culture #language #names #racism #technology

5 years ago | View Shared by victor

The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | MIT Technology Review

#ai #algorithm #algorithms #culture #data #ethics #poverty #technology | <blockquote>A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.</blockquote>

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