bs2Feb 21, 2024

Surveillance Capitalism foreseen in 1984
> .. It's surprising how accurately Winner's [1984] predictions describe modern [2011] society. Passivity and complacency, the illusion of connectedness in the face of isolation, real democracy collapsing under the weight of increased media exposure and ubiquitous monitoring of citizens.

https://darcynorman.net/notes/2011/2011-01-02-the-whale-and-the-reactor-mythinformation/

#DArcyNorman with
#LangdonWinner on #MythInformation

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/phil27/s24/papers/Mythinformation.pdf

#EdwardAFeigenbaum #PamelaMcCorduck #TheFifthGeneration

-D'Arcy Norman, PhD

learning technologies, design, and other things

bs2Jan 30, 2023
> in 1962, #Weizenbaum was already noting that when it came to the matter of fooling people, it was also quite possible for the program’s author to wind up fooling themselves, as he put it “programs which become so complex…that the author himself loses track, obviously have the highest IQ’s.” In other words, understanding the program did not guarantee protection..
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/
#ElizaEffect #JosephWeizenbaum #TheFifthGeneration
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings

“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983)   Trying to kee…

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