The Platform Is the Enemy
The tone is perhaps a tad melodramatic, but that keeps it fun to read!I think there’s a question worth asking here that I don’t thing gets asked enough: what are the decisions we want to leave to humans? What decisions do we want to leave to individual humans?This article reminded me of Neil Postman’s Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. I’ve written my thoughts on it here.[^1] His primary thesis is that all technology has a trade-off and an agenda of how it wants to be used, and more importantly, we are often blind to that trade-off and agenda.For simple technologies, like hammers and spoons, the danger is negligible. For more powerful technologies like writing, telegraphy, and statistics, the dangers are much harder to see.I highly recommend Technopoly if this article struck a cord with you.[^1]: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2020-08-16-book-review-technopo...