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Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology
- rapnie 7y agoI like how the author makes the point that the problems with social media are bigger than privacy + surveillance alone. > The forces it has unleashed will affect future elections and even our ability to tell fact from fiction, increasing the divisions within society. > Yes, online privacy is a real problem that needs to be addressed. But even the best privacy laws are only as effective as our Paleolithic [primitive] emotions are resistant to the seductions of technology.
- intended 7y agoWhile this is a great and now obvious conclusion i always find two places where the conversation stalls. Based on the article’s direction: - 1) what does it mean to be “humane” tech ? As the author argues - You could add friction to the large tech firms, even make attention marketing unviable. Then use that to fund “humane” solutions (editors and journalists ? Would that be human or humane?) Does that solve the potential abuse of tech and human wet ware ? Or Are we supposed to eventually say “Dune got it right, we should only have mentats” Edit: no time for point two, distracted.