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Interesting, can you elaborate on this? It's only relatively recently that we've started to use technology to undo that and work against creation of meaning ra
by bamboozled 2y ago
Interesting, can you elaborate on this?
It's only relatively recently that we've started to use technology to undo that and work against creation of meaning rather than towards it.
Examples?
- nonrandomstring 2y agoI can give examples of things I think fit that, but not offer arguments - because some people can claim "meaning" in almost anything. A fairly clear one would be widespread "over-zealous use of intellectual property technology to stifle culture". It's getting easier to do with all kinds of digital handcuffs, TPMs, and mechanisms that take agency and meaning away from the owner of a computer and place it in the hands of who really controls the computer. It's concomitant with "surveillance capitalism" but I think marks a qualitative change from computers as enabling tools in the 20th century, to systems of social control in the 21st. That marks a significant change in the "meaning" of computers qua purpose, optimism and opportunity (for everyone not just geeks and developers.) I feel quite sure artists who worry about AI would say similar but in a different way.