Yes, designers can do better, but jeez, from my POV, our entire western economic system is based around value extraction!
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To see Harris & co get all this media coverage and not talk head-on about the reality of the environment and the *systemic issues* to me indicates that they’re a) breathtakingly naive, b) not serious, c) happy to just keep talking and speaking around the edges
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Do as many TED talks as you like. It’s entirely different work to do the grimy political side of things and to recognize what other people will say: this behavior is economically rewarded and we have to *actually change that*.
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I mean, that last Wired profile before CHT’s latest unveiling (the Human Downgrading tagline) was about as damning as you could get without them calling bullshit (which, I argue, we need!) Harris himself admitted to the crafting of the message being the most important thing!
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I’m not saying it’s *not* important, but it LOOKS LIKE that’s what they’re spending most of their time on. And just NOW they’ve realized that they need to renegotiate their relationship with the humanities and social sciences? On *their* terms?!
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Dan Hon Retweeted Aza Raskin
To be absolutely clear, this conversation, and the one prompting it, is bullshit. If CHT are positioning themselves as the voice of, well, humane tech, then I think they’re being harmful:https://twitter.com/aza/status/1138536828909211648?s=21 …
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Aza Raskin @azaHi@zeynep, don’t think we have formally met yet. I both admire and am inspired by your work. What I hear you saying: an incredible amount of thought & work... fields and sub-fields and sub-sub-fields... have been dedicated to grappling with technology's interaction w society. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1138479527301210112 …Show this thread1 reply 4 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
Actually, now that I’m pissed off, in its worse case, the Center for Humane Tech is tech-washing. It’s being seen to care and do something while not actually doing anywhere near enough at all, and I’m terrified it’s self-serving.
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I've made roughly the same criticism, though more politely than you :)
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I think the CHT gang mean well, but I at least have fundamental philosophical problems with their project, which necessitates tactics (shaming, susceptibility to techwashing) etc that I think we both have problems with. But the tactics follow from the philosophy.
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Though you and I probably differ on exactly how/why they're philosophically on the wrong tack and what to do instead. You want a properly political project, I prefer gonzo steering into the skid and taking it to the logical conclusion and out the other side.
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Nah, I want both. At least, that’s what I drew on the whiteboard. Simultaneous gonzo bottom-up and top-down politicking.
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