Tag: Nicholas Carr

The world wide cage (via Nicholas Carr)

“Silicon Valley and China should not become ‘mission control for humanity”, writes Gerd Leonhard in Technology vs. Humanity (released on September 8 2016). In-line with Gerd’s vision is the brilliant The world wide cage article by Nicholas Carr on the aeon website. In his provocation, Nicholas writes how “Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw … Continue reading "The world wide cage (via Nicholas Carr)"

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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines (5* read)

“Because automation alters how we act, how we learn, and what we know, it has an ethical dimension. The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.”

All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/
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