Tech Won't Save Us How Interfaces Shape Our Relationship to Tech w/ Zachary Kaiser
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Feb 15, 2024 AI Snips
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Tech Promotes Optimization Ideology
- Technologies influence how we identify and optimize ourselves with data.
- Even accurate devices can push us to see ourselves as quantifiable machines.
Computable Subjectivity as Ideology
- The belief humans are computable is ideological but offers material benefits.
- Those inside tech design must internalize this belief to produce usable products.
Data Is Not Reality
- We wrongly assume data is a perfect mirror of reality.
- Interfaces hide the complex translations that shape data, making it seem like a direct reality reflection.