Humanizing technology
11 Mar 2025, 11:50 pm
45 mins
As a species, humanity is incredibly lazy! We love making things easier for ourselves. We have built tools, and computers and the internet. We have can openers, calculators and cream-in-a-can. We have all the world’s information at our fingertips, 24/7. Any individual on the planet has the ability to contact literally billions of people. We have created a glorious digital world with unprecedented scale and reach!
So how do we retain our identity and agency, when our environment is overstuffed with data and communicating is trying to drink from a firehose? Attempting to make life manageable, we categorise and filter and automatically process. With the advent of AI, we even have machines creating content for other machines. Machines make decisions for us, and, autonomously, about us. We are just cogs.
What does it take to reverse this effect? How do we humanize technology again, both on a local and a global scale?
So how do we retain our identity and agency, when our environment is overstuffed with data and communicating is trying to drink from a firehose? Attempting to make life manageable, we categorise and filter and automatically process. With the advent of AI, we even have machines creating content for other machines. Machines make decisions for us, and, autonomously, about us. We are just cogs.
What does it take to reverse this effect? How do we humanize technology again, both on a local and a global scale?
