There are a bunch of medical advances that I would call technology and have been big changes. Two easy ones come to mind. Each year there are 210,000 pacemakers installed in the USA. Each one of those is significant. Cataract surgery has gotten a lot better and the number of case is in the millions. All of those people would have lost their vision previously.
Technology Weirds the World. Jonathan Haidt would agree. So would Franklin Foer who wrote World Without Mind. We do live in weird times for which we are not totally prepared. Actually, not even remotely ready.
I feel this acutely and was talking with friends about this recently. Growing up wandering without a phone wasn’t only an escape but also shaped my brain.
And I find calling people somehow feels more intrusive than texting when in reality most of friends welcome it.
Social media has become a simulation of our social lives, stealing our time reel by reel so we don’t notice…
Stopping this wave is futile and cheats us out of good progress. My worry is we haven’t even learned how to control the negative externalities of the previous wave yet and AI will probably be even greater!
There are a bunch of medical advances that I would call technology and have been big changes. Two easy ones come to mind. Each year there are 210,000 pacemakers installed in the USA. Each one of those is significant. Cataract surgery has gotten a lot better and the number of case is in the millions. All of those people would have lost their vision previously.
Technology Weirds the World. Jonathan Haidt would agree. So would Franklin Foer who wrote World Without Mind. We do live in weird times for which we are not totally prepared. Actually, not even remotely ready.
I feel this acutely and was talking with friends about this recently. Growing up wandering without a phone wasn’t only an escape but also shaped my brain.
And I find calling people somehow feels more intrusive than texting when in reality most of friends welcome it.
Social media has become a simulation of our social lives, stealing our time reel by reel so we don’t notice…
Stopping this wave is futile and cheats us out of good progress. My worry is we haven’t even learned how to control the negative externalities of the previous wave yet and AI will probably be even greater!