"Against the Dehumanisation of Decision-Making – Algorithmic Decisions at the Crossroads of Intellectual Property, Data Protection, and Freedom of Information":
https://www.jipitec.eu/issues/jipitec-9-1-2018/4677
"Ten arguments against algorithmic decision making > Putting people first":
https://blog.experientia.com/ten-arguments-against-algorithmic-decision-making/
Noticing large parts of the tech/A.I scene rapidly buying into the US Gov's new cold war rhetoric: "China is a EVIL dictatorship! They have DATA! Don't allow them to become leaders in AI !" Take a deep breath and re-evaluate your values & spam filters. This is very stupid.
"Kannon Bodhisattva robot unveiled at Kyoto temple to share Buddha’s religious teachings":
"We are developing [insert any disruptive tech with unclear societal benefit/risk] to improve the lives of [insert tiny minority suffering from rare condition]"
With all due respect to minority x, such arguments are shortsighted and even dishonest. And yet, common-place in tech.
Dr. Martin Pall: “The 5G Rollout Is Absolutely Insane.” #Technology #Health
Bicycles in Berlin are a good example of failed technology infrastructure planing. The gov is massively pushing bike sharing & access. Yet, they did not invest in Bike Lanes & other city planing measures such as Car reduction (DE car lobby too strong). The result? Dangerous Chaos.
When designing new technologies, it's tempting to analyse them in isolation - a grave mistake. All tech lives in a complex web of other tech, people, animals, infrastructure, history etc. All tech has positive effects (augmentation) and negative effects (amputation).
"Programming The Internet" - Lecture by Graham Spencer:
What many don't seem to get about "Augmented Reality" (AR), is that the glasses are really just a detail. The name of the game will be Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) - with and without consent.
In 2019, one would think "human centered" or "customer first" processes are standard (listen to customer needs > co-design solution > tech). Yet even at "world leading" orgs, i find this is just lip service (Reality: Engineer builds "cool" tech > PR pushes to customer"). Painful.
Rapid public release cycles afforded by big $ is certainly 1 philosophy of doing "customer centred" design. Arguably, the Chinese are masters (spam market with 50+ variants, see what sticks). Like a ML/finance optimisation problem, but not per-se "design".
If the main metrics "design" is "optimising" for are what is (easily) measurable (market fit/profits) - within an progressively automated environment - we likely end up in a techno-totalitarian system that is the opposite of "human centered" - or design.
WANT: A contemporary theory & praxis of technology design which is grounded in the philosophy of Taoism and Yin Yang. The need and opportunity for this are obvious. The current standard theories (of tech design) dysfunctional & unbalanced.
"Forget everything you know about 3D printing — the ‘replicator’ is here": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9 "Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies"
While Alan Turing is best known for his contributions to computing, his ideas on other topics were equally interesting. #Magic #Technology
"When the body dies, the 'mechanism' of the body holding the spirit is gone, and the spirit finds a new body sooner or later, perhaps immediately."
– Alan Turing on the death of his boyfriend.
"New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People":
https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2019/new_technology_uses_lasers_to_transmit_audible_mes/ #NeuroScience #Technology #Military
The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-davos-world-economic-forum.html unpaywalled: https://outline.com/jsDdbh #Technology #Politics #Automation
What we can learn from Herbert Simon - talk by Nicklas Lundblad, Google:
Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo. #HCI #Technology #Design
Turing Award Lecture - by Alan Kay (2003): #Design #Technology #HCI
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei: "Education should be a priority":
"Human Society will witness earth-shaking changes in the next 20-30y, at least in the modes of production. Eduction is the cheapest method of national defence" - Ren Zhengfei
Primitive #Technology: Stone Yam planters