Tag: Tech
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Conscientious Objections by Neil Postman
This is a gateway drug for Neil Postman’s work. If you don’t know him, this is a good starting point.
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“…hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media…”
Ed Zitron thinks we’ve hit Peak AI and isn’t impressed. He makes a pretty good case for it.
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“…a competition with her husband to find out who could collect the most digital badges, such as “brake genius” and “limit hero.””
Your connected car is being used against you.
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“There is no next big thing coming.”
Platforms have convinced us that the web is dying. Here’s why it’s wrong, and what we should expect when creating online.
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A couple good pieces about AI
Two great pieces on AI and the mismatch of hype and delivery – one from Rolling Stone in January, another from Tobias Revell just this week.
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“Move fast, break things, copy people’s nude photos and private messages for robots to make further copies of.”
Automattic is selling WordPress data to AI companies. Why? Do we care? Should we?
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“It actually allows us to change human evolution, if we want to. It’s that profound.”
A video profile of Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel winning developers of CRISPR technology — and subject of Isaacson’s The Code Breaker.
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Brain wave-powered tech allows Canadian kids ‘trapped in their own bodies’ to play
Forget Neuralink – check out what they’re doing for kids with the Brain Computer Interface at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto.
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“I stand with penguins in condemning the ice in your drink.”
In 2020 I quit two things: booze and Facebook*. It’s unclear which has a more destructive potential, but both were excellent things to leave in the past. The lockdown had me spending too much time online, getting into dumb spats that don’t matter with people that don’t matter. Then Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism found me…
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“…the robots are in the trucks, they are fanning out across town, the cheese is everywhere…”
In Fast Company, the definitive story of Zume, the trucks that made pizzas on route to your house. There are so many stories like this, and I love them all. It’s the tech boom in a nutshell: As Zume made hundreds of new hires, its only revenue came from its original pizza business. Zume Pizza…