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"Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy": https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828
The rise of Amazon (the company) is inextricably linked with the fall of Amazon (the rainforest).
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The Army Wants AI to Read Soldiers’ Minds":
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/04/army-wants-ai-read-soldiers-minds/156147/ Cognitive chimera states in human brain networks: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaau8535
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"Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction" (CHI 2019): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/01/Guidelines-for-Human-AI-Interaction-camera-ready.pdf
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One must pull the hat for the performance which PR departments of big tech corps play, truly excellent work in this media age: They manage to sell the politics of stagnation & oppression as the politics of dynamism & progress. Respect, very professional! The reality is different.
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"To quibble with this kind of system [capitalism] about its values, to frighten it with visions about the consequences of growth, is to quarrel with its very metabolism" - Murray Bookchin, (Toward an Ecological Society, 1980)
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"Calicut: How and Why Open Hardware and Open Source can and should be used in non-western countries" - presentation by @mfioretti_en: http://mfioretti.com/2019/02/calicut-how-and-why-open-hardware-and-open-source-can-and-should-be-used-in-non-western-countries/ #OpenSource #Regenerative
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“I absolutely detest modern media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It’s a disease. It seems to encourage bad behaviour.” - Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux)
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds #Technology
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"Good taste is the most obvious resource of the insecure. People of good taste eagerly buy the Emperor's old clothes. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. Good taste is the anaesthetic of the public." - Harley Parker
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If we recognise "planned obsolescence" as a factor in the evaluation of how "intelligent" our machines are, the result likely will be stupid.
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Contemporary technology design suffers from a similar illness: "Users" are predominantly treated as inferior subjects - a nuisance in an otherwise "perfect" algorithmic system, optimised for maximum profits.
Empowerment (power WITHIN) is what modern medicine tries to do. However the semiotics - the signs and symbols we use to communicate - tell another story. Visual culture counts for a lot. From the TV shows to photography: modern medicine still towers, leans and has power OVER us. - Ivor Williams
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“Artificial Intelligence must directly relate to people and people's needs. The biggest challenge for designers, scientists, managers and engineers these days is to develop a language, a method of actually letting people participate in the design and architectural and technological processes. We have failed in that. This is not the fault of the people we are working for or with, but this is our fault and we have to think about that.” - Victor Papanek (remixed by samim)
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"Artificial Intelligence rests on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence" - Lewis Mumford, remixed
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"Technology alone is not an answer" - Victor Papanek
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"Vultures are a key species that provide us critical ecosystem services, just like bees or earthworms. Don’t screw with nature, Portugal. When a catastrophe hits us, these critical ecosystem services is how our own species will survive and not fall victim to a pandemic!" - Vakibs
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“Microbes in the Tower” - presentation by Victor Papanek (June 1992) at Apple Computer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dCg1fKL5EaYjQyNmY4MzctMjEyYi00NTAxLWFiYjgtMzY2ZTAwYjBkNDI1/view
