1/ There's something I've been trying to put into words but I don't know how yet. Maybe some folks on here (STS people?) can help me?
4/ Technocratic solutions now are dramatically different than they would even 50 years ago — the capabilities are, truly, Clarke-ian magic. So, most people do think tech is great. Experts identify problems... ...but they're also not most people, definitionally.
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5/ TLDR: I'm generally wary of technocratic solutions because I think this remarkable technological capacity to be misleading relative to the size and staggering complexity of the problems people want to solve. But that's hard to communicate, let alone demonstrate.
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6/ It's even harder to communicate why my primary means of exploring problems is computational. If you're asking, "what are the information processing dynamics of this particular type of society?" the warnings fall a bit flat, since you're halfway there already.
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