Tools Of Our Tools

Jun 22, 2014, 1 comments, 3 smiles We’ve become the tools of our tools;  And the fault – and the solution – lies not in our tools, but in ourselves. The digital revolution promised so much at the outset: computers would make air travel safer, health care more affordable, and education more widely available. But for all the evident benefits – and there are many – the tools have taken over the toolmakers.   --Complex algorithms, beyond human understanding, replace even the most high-valued jobs, including the jobs of algorithm writers; --Yet even as jobs and income disappear, mobile devices bombarded with messages urging endless consumption of finite resources. The resulting frustration is leveraged by powerful media to keep the public in a state of fury and frenzy; --What jobs do remain demand that we work at superhuman speed to keep up with superfast silicon systems; --Opaque institutions demand that our lives be absolutely transparent to them, even as hackers can rob us of our ... Read Full Story