CGI, AI, chatbots, app-based education, spyware, compressed audio, and streaming media are all around us, already integrated into the technosystem of modern life.
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The rate at which this stuff has crept into our daily lives, the speed at which it has been adopted and treated as normal, makes the encroachment seem inevitable.
To paraphrase the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Thor– is it, though?
Sure, the tech is seductive. Deadlines suck, bosses overdemand, and wouldn’t it be nice to let the replicants do the work while we take just a little bit of a break?
Of course, seduction can be dishonest. Seduction can mask manipulation. Seduction can lead to a host of bad outcomes.
And yet, so many of us have acquiesced to the new tech and accepted it as inevitable and inexorable, simply unstoppable.
Recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about how it actually could be stopped.
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He goes on to talk about what we humans are losing as humans from the high tech world we are living in.
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Who cares, when the ads show us things we can immediately impulse-buy online with PayPal and there are funny chihuahua videos to watch?
I know I’m in a tiny minority, but – as a practitioner of a tiny minority religion – I’m used to caring about things that are way outside the mainstream of our cultural discourse.
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Agree or not but he covers some things we are not noticing.
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