Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilisational disaster
By Benjamin Bratton
theguardian.com, Monday 30 December 2013
In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of
saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky.
But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks
actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little
actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can
do all by themselves wrong?
I write about entanglements of
technology and culture, how technologies enable the making of certain
worlds, and at the same time how culture structures how those
technologies will evolve, this way or that. It's where philosophy and
design intersect.
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