Fail-Safe Failures
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nature-of-our-vulnerability-to-new-technologies-by-robert-skidelsky-2021-08
Robert Skidelsky warns:
The slower-burning threat is that populations, accustomed to the “automatic” provision of services on which they rely, will gradually lose their resilience to “shocks,” both natural and artificial. Having lost their memory of how things were done in the past, and knowing little or nothing about how the processes on which they rely actually work, they will be helpless and panic-stricken in the face of even mild upsets to “normal” life. They have made a God of the Machine, or as, academics more soberly explain, they live by the “scientific-technological paradigm” and are governed by its “frame of necessities.”
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nature-of-our-vulnerability-to-new-technologies-by-robert-skidelsky-2021-08
Robert Skidelsky warns:
The slower-burning threat is that populations, accustomed to the “automatic” provision of services on which they rely, will gradually lose their resilience to “shocks,” both natural and artificial. Having lost their memory of how things were done in the past, and knowing little or nothing about how the processes on which they rely actually work, they will be helpless and panic-stricken in the face of even mild upsets to “normal” life. They have made a God of the Machine, or as, academics more soberly explain, they live by the “scientific-technological paradigm” and are governed by its “frame of necessities.”
The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/apple-iphone-privacy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/apple-iphone-privacy.html