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This piece is so prescient and explanatory of the current tech dystopia, its scary. If there is anything to remark on, it is that software tech as distinct fro
by streamofdigits 5y ago
This piece is so prescient and explanatory of the current tech dystopia, its scary.
If there is anything to remark on, it is that software tech as distinct from hardware that is very directly, almost tangibly so, an externalization of our internal machinations.
While any concrete silicon technology already circumscribes a certain universe of "tricks", it is, in-principle, much more agnostic as to what we do with it.
It is in the programming of the stuff where literaly people directly express their inner world: e.g., using a keyboard to configure devices as contrivances that will exploit and diminish other people instead of empowering and improving our collective predicament.
Ofcourse, with the hindsight of two decades, we know that the downward spiral is self-reinforcing. Once a software machination "proves" itself it drives the development of hardware that will further "enhance" its effectiveness.
- jcun4128 5y agoI want to know how a person can just do something that's bad/fraud and not feel bad. I'm a yes man/nice guy to my own detriment. Is something off, they just suppress the idea of morals, idk.
- streamofdigits 5y agoI think the term is "sociopaths" and it is as much a human reality, as is altruism and other positive aspects of our character. The trick is really (and that is a social tech contrivance that much predates digital tech) to get ordinary people do the wrong thing without feeling bad. Silos, obfuscation, long chains of command, dependency, limited attention span, distractions, fake enemies, you name it, its been used.