I was watching buffy and the eighth episode of the first season a demon is scanned into the computers. This is a funny time as its when people where online with dialup. All the same it had a quote I feel is apropos to the current period. Truns out that show had a bit of the simpsons precog ability:
Giles: Nonsense! I simply don’t adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it’s better.
Ms. Calendar: This isn’t a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here.
Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well… Thank you, I’ll pass.
At the same time technology is neutral, it’s humans who chose this, so frankly less interaction and a bit more technology might be highly beneficial.
as long as you don’t count software as technology because it, especially algorithms, are often not neutral.
The software didn’t code itself
originally but it is a thing now.
But the other poster’s point still stands. Technology in general, and algorithms specifically, are neutral. It’s humans deciding what to put into production and what metrics need to be met that cause the problems, not the technology itself. Blaming “technology” is just a way to let the humans making decisions off the hook.
true. its dystopia because done in another way it could be utopia.