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…a little over a century ago, scientists and companies began wondering what would happen if everyday items were connected to electricity or replaced with an electric option. The oven, the ice box, the clothing drying line.
Like some of the experiments of 100 years ago, some [IoT experiments] are going to be unexpectedly interesting. Some will be hugely successful and change everything. There will also be many experiments, as there were then, where we ask ourselves why? I’m sure in the 1920s and ’30s, it must have felt similarly overwhelming.
(Source: guggenheim.org)
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“Clearly, smart machines are advancing at the things they do well at a much faster rate than we humans are. And granted, many workers will need to call on and cultivate different capabilities than the ones they have relied on in the past. But for the foreseeable future, there are still unlimited ways for humans to contribute tremendous value.”
(Source: fastcoexist.com)
“Scholars of the humanities are comfortable with problems that don’t have just one correct answer… They’re used to managing ambiguity. They have an ability to think broadly, an ability to take a stand, and yet know there are other approaches.”
“Social and technological systems do not develop independently; the two evolve together in complex feedback loops, wherein each drives, restrains and accelerates change in the other.” -Adam Thierer quotes John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid in his excellent overview of social / technological interdependence.
Peter Blume’s Light of the World (1932) delivers an allegorical critique of modernity and the unquestioning embrace of progress. The four figures are transfixed by the bright light of a fantastical lamp whose brilliance contrasts with the darkening sky overtaking a cathedral based on Notre Dame in Paris – a juxtaposition implying that the faith once reflected in Gothic architecture’s soaring spires had been transferred to modern technologies. (at Whitney Museum of American Art)
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