Attention Economy


Monday, March 20, 2023

Is Technology Making Us Miserable?

Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/20/magazine/colin-koopman-interview.html
Colin Koopman:
It creates a big democratic deficit. It undermines our sense of our own ability to engage democratically in some of the basic terms through which we’re living with others in society. A lot of that is not an effect of the technologies themselves. A lot of it is the ways in which our culture tends to want to think of technology, especially information technology, as this glistening, exciting thing, and its importance is premised on its being beyond your comprehension. But I think there’s a lot we can come to terms with concerning, say, a database into which we’ve been loaded.