Every day we butt heads with technology in a myriad of ways, some tiny, some huge. All of them take their toll. Technology should be a wondrous boon! From speech recognition to customised interfaces, it could make life so much easier. The tech industry chooses not to make that kind of tech, or even allow it.
Category: Tech Industry
Dr Nicky Ringland’s Advice to Graduates
As you step out into an AI-driven world that feels increasingly automated, your greatest competitive advantage won't be your skill with syntax. It will be your humanity and the community you build to support it.
How many errors is too many?
We're just not good at fact checking things. We skim them, assuming they're accurate, and then the errors settle in, like stones at the bottom of a pond. Sharp ones. Stones that may well cut our feet when we inadvertently step on them later.
Benefit Model
It would be easy to define our 2025 by those wounding moments. By the cuts still open, the stitches applied, real and metaphorical, the bruises, both faded and fresh. You only need to look around you, at the landscape, the climate, the nation, and the world, to see reasons why this focus makes sense. The wounds shape us. They instruct our immune systems, and define our responses to subsequent events, whether those future events are actually traumatic or not. They mark our skin, scar our brains, label us as having struggled. I could easily define myself by those wounds.
Things we can say no to
Banning kids under 16 from social media might make great headlines, and give the government the appearance of doing something meaningful, but it's tokenistic at best, harmful at worst. We could have an internet that doesn't consume us for fun and profit. We're choosing not to.