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> technology does not drive history, people drive history this fails to grasp the changing nature of agency in a world brimming with hybrid intelligence we wo
by walleeee 4y ago
> technology does not drive history, people drive history
this fails to grasp the changing nature of agency in a world brimming with hybrid intelligence
we would perhaps like to think we and we alone "drive" history, and I agree with the author that we ought to try to, but technology carries its own inertia
nonhuman agency accretes as we interact with our implements and artifacts
this occurs even before we explicitly design autonomy into our tools, which of course we are now doing
technology carves ruts in the mind and in the world