Recalling Jaron Lanier's guest talk in Waterloo, where he made fun of Canadians for letting Google walk in and take over. True. Sidewalk Labs’s Ambitious Smart City Plans Now Face a Legal Battle by @FastCompany https://t.co/UPf4D3nu0q
Eight months after public schools near Wichita, Kan., adopted online tools developed by Facebook engineers to teach their children, parents and students are rebelling. https://t.co/2hASt6QyEL
"My question to you is, is this what you want? Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism?"
Watch as @carolecadwalla calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" for being on the wrong side of history: https://t.co/SrTKzCbPSV #TED2019
@stewartbrand How might the infrastructure required to produce tech mash up with the idea of Nature As Infrastructure? Thinking of projects like Anatomy of AI: https://t.co/CS1YCkHUMC
Note the focus on "interdisciplinary" solutions, which include the humanities. I was expecting a hint of toxic e-waste and unsustainable mining here too...
"Choking on Digital Pollution" in Washington Monthly repeats what @HumaneTech_ has advocated since last year with our Ledger of Harms. Tech attention companies privately profit while harms/pollution show up on balance sheets of society: https://t.co/ZDhvX8dksL
@tristanharris@HumaneTech_ Paleolithic instincts? Sounds like you could use a media theorist on your team who is familiar with the work of André Leroi-Gourhan. https://t.co/46abeFNiOK
Looking for UX designers available immediately in SF to help @HumaneTech_ collect, mock up and organize a "humane" design patterns library for solutions that re-align tech w/ our paleolithic instincts. Respond w/ links to your work… and meet each other too :)
Tristan Harris proclaims that technoculture is "philosophically impoverished." Wait until he discovers Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio. https://t.co/av1u6cs56y via @WIRED