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Our tools shape our selves
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoFrom article. This is from 2016, but seems to be accelerating more than anyone could have guessed even 8 years ago. """ The digital economy doesn’t always offer desirable alternatives as former ways of working and living are destroyed In Automatic Society, Volume 1: The Future of Work (2016), Stiegler shows how big data can standardise our world by reorganising work and employment. Digital tools were first seen as a disruptive force that could break the monotonous rhythms of large industry, but the rise of flexible forms of employment in the gig economy has created a massive underclass. A new proletariat of Uber drivers and other precarious workers now labour under extremely unstable conditions. They are denied even the traditional protections of working-class employment. The digital economy doesn’t always offer desirable alternatives as former ways of working and living are destroyed."""
- k310 3y agoSee also Lewis Mumford. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford I read many of his works. And Thoreau. "Men have become the tools of their tools." http://www.literaturepage.com/read/walden-29.html http://www.literaturepage.com/read/walden-29.html And others: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/26/shape/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/26/shape/