Yeah, this. As humans and as the inventors of these technologies, we get to decide what kind of values we uphold and how our politics and policies should reflect them.
These think pieces that subscribe to an unspoken underlying technological determinism are so disgusting to me, they have a really narrow and pathetic view of what it means to be human (it mostly boils down to "economic agent") Half the time I wonder if the authors themselves even have requisite humanity, and I also wonder if the obsession around digital technology is partially driven by our having made machines of ourselves in the first place (all we care about is economy, work, etc. We've lost the old notion of the "human spirit" at great cost).
More people in power and decision making positions need to start broadening their reading lists with Goethe, William Blake, Novalis, and other awakened poets and start letting some of these imaginative ideas about humanity's potential drive their lives more than purely economically motivated crapped out thinkpieces.
These think pieces that subscribe to an unspoken underlying technological determinism are so disgusting to me, they have a really narrow and pathetic view of what it means to be human (it mostly boils down to "economic agent") Half the time I wonder if the authors themselves even have requisite humanity, and I also wonder if the obsession around digital technology is partially driven by our having made machines of ourselves in the first place (all we care about is economy, work, etc. We've lost the old notion of the "human spirit" at great cost).
More people in power and decision making positions need to start broadening their reading lists with Goethe, William Blake, Novalis, and other awakened poets and start letting some of these imaginative ideas about humanity's potential drive their lives more than purely economically motivated crapped out thinkpieces.