New Dark Age
Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle · first published 2018
100% recommend
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In actual fact, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the accessibility of information, we're living in a new Dark Age. From rogue
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Technologies develop for different purposes and have different effects. Modern digital technology has a very inhumane origin story, as noted in “New Dark Age” by James Bridle, and other works. https://jamesbridle.com/books/new-dark-age
on “Big Data Is Dead” ↗New Dark Age
on “Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?” ↗James Bridle wrote a rather good book titled "New Dark Age" that covers the continual increase in reliance on algorithms and often non-human-verified data in our decision making processes in all aspects of our lives. This impacts scenarios from the individual…
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