And if you can, but you don’t, it might just be that you have a vested interest in that thing appearing more complex than it really is.https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/980129156749864960 …
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Aral Balkan Retweeted Richard Feynman
And if you can, but you don’t, it might just be that you have a vested interest in that thing appearing more complex than it really is.https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/980129156749864960 …
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To continue that line of reasoning, perhaps it’s time we learned to recognise an “appeal to technology” as a logical fallacy used by technological determinists: “It must be this way because objective and inevitable technological realities you won’t understand dictate it.”https://twitter.com/aral/status/980715359002091520 …
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The flaw being that there is nothing objective about technology and nothing inevitable about the nature of the technology we have today. The decisions that determine which technologies get funded and created and their character are entirely subjective and political in nature.https://twitter.com/aral/status/980717395605106688 …
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It is in the interests of those who want you to believe that technology can only be the way that it is to make it appear as incomprehensibly complex as possible (while at the same time entirely objective and inevitable; a straight vector of “progress” from the past to the future)https://twitter.com/aral/status/980718719826620416 …
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Those of us working to alter the character of our everyday technology to make it kinder, fairer, and more egalitarian must embrace simplicity, transparency, and the subjective nature of our work in all things: from how we explain things to the design of the things themselves.https://twitter.com/aral/status/980719414625603584 …
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