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How can we live well with tech, without it becoming our master?

These days, the heady promises of Silicon Valley seem suspect: the internet didn’t bring all of humanity together; neither did smartphones or social media. We have long since stopped associating tech with utopian visions of global harmony, instead blaming it for distraction, polarization, addictions to porn and gambling, the trivialization of culture, loss of privacy and work-life balance, and fears that automation may push millions out of a job. Advances in artificial intelligence seem poised to bring us to the next technological watershed. It’s a good time to ask how we can learn to live well with tech, and how we might push back against technologies that shape humans in anti-human ways.

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Plough Quarterly No. 40 The Good of Tech

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2024
      ISBN13: 9781636081489, 978-1636081489
      ISBN10: 1636081487

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How can we live well with tech, without it becoming our master?

      These days, the heady promises of Silicon Valley seem suspect: the internet didn’t bring all of humanity together; neither did smartphones or social media. We have long since stopped associating tech with utopian visions of global harmony, instead blaming it for distraction, polarization, addictions to porn and gambling, the trivialization of culture, loss of privacy and work-life balance, and fears that automation may push millions out of a job. Advances in artificial intelligence seem poised to bring us to the next technological watershed. It’s a good time to ask how we can learn to live well with tech, and how we might push back against technologies that shape humans in anti-human ways.

      On this theme:

      • Find out why computers can’t do math and humans can.
      • When parenting from prison, a little tech can make a big diff

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