We urgently need to develop new technological tools that enable us to liberate the potential of our attention, rather than cynically exploit the value in our attention. - Ted Hunt
"Just because you can build something doesn't mean you should."#Ideas
"The web is a river, don't try to hold on"
That feeling when one finally closes a browser tab, after weeks of keeping it open in search of a moment to read it (which never arrived). Repeats 3x: *The web is a river, don't try to hold on*.
Computational Class Warfare™ #ML #Automation #Ideas
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hofstadter
Smartphones are a strange medium: For every bit of global situational awareness gained, the same amount of local situational awareness is lost.
"People in the west are always getting ready to live."
- Chinese saying
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." - Karl Marx
Flora-Fauna-Human-Computer-Interaction
Autonomous computer systems (AI) are interesting & Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is important. Yet, in these times of climate change & anthropocene it is "Flora-Fauna-Human-Interaction" (FFHI) which is critical. #Ideas
A wise man once said nothing
"Low definition experiences invite participation."
- Eric McLuhan
This is a primary challenge we are facing moving into highly accessible, very high definition new media, powered by generative machine learning systems. #Ideas
"Forced Decentralisation" is a sane strategy at this point.
Hijack their (your) data through homemade API's (web crawler over TOR) and use it to feed your indie blog, which then openly shares data over activitypub.
Will future generations call our current time "The age of aspirational technology"? Where the key players were PR people (not technologist etc.) - making wild claims about illusive capabilities, only to meet the infinite growth demands of speculative finance.
"AI is the new Electricity" is interesting.
"Electricity is Intelligent" is profoundly fascinating.
"Service environments have taken the place of political policies"
- Marshall McLuhan, 1974