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Maelle Gavet
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“One of the many difficulties in addressing these issues is the “attention economy” that tech has created. When so much competes for our attention, and when we are trained to expect and demand instant gratification, it is hard to focus on the bigger picture.”
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
“One thing that has become ever-clearer in this attention economy is that it involves the deliberate abdication of moral responsibility. Usually the leaders of unicorns in this space, draping themselves in the flag of “free speech,” justify and absolve themselves by relying on Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, which offers protective cover every bit as powerful as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. In the words of Wired's Matt Reynolds, Section 230 set the goalposts of the internet we have today.43”
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
“Huxley and Orwell, wrote Postman, did not predict the same future. “Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think,” As Postman explained: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny ‘failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.”
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
― Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
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