Our common pursuit of a good life starts and ends with people, not platforms or profits, or the promise of power. To judge which paths toward the future are best and which are likely to betray their promises, we must start with knowing what is good.
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The machinery of the new technocracy was most efficient when people were seen not as “children of God or even citizens but as consumers—that is to say, as markets.”
Reading Neil Postman Series – In the opening chapter of Technopoly, Postman makes a case for taking technological change seriously. The cultural transformation caused by new technologies happens quickly, but it doesn’t have to happen thoughtlessly.
If we’re already deep in what Postman called technopoly, we shouldn’t slouch towards whatever comes next. Join Matt Civico in thinking through Technopoly in 2020.
What we see on social media is very often distorted by our own experience of the feeds. By the flattening of reality into a personalized feed, the mirror in the window.
Our common pursuit of a good life starts and ends with people, not platforms or profits, or the promise of power. To judge which paths toward the future are best and which are likely to betray their promises, we must start with knowing what is good.
