Our blind faith in technology and obsession with reckless innovation is leading us down a irreversible dystopian fate.
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AI’s carbon footprint problem
h/t Kobi Leins @Kobotic
“Machine learning generates far more carbon emissions than most people realize. A Stanford team has developed a tool to measure the hidden cost.”
Human Interests and Technological Systems
h/t Frank Pasquale @FrankPasquale
“We could just as easily imagine that the human interest will be superseded by the imperatives of the machine, that the person will be bent to the service and logic of the machine. There is ample precedent.”
Satellite mega-constellations risk ruining astronomy forever
h/t Bradley Leimer @leimer
“The astronomy community is on edge. The growing number of satellites streaming through low Earth orbit is making it almost impossible to get a clear view of the sky.”
‘The Innovation Delusion’ Review: Mistaking Novelty for Progress
h/t Frank Pasquale @FrankPasquale
“In this dystopian view, we’ve mistaken novelty for progress and, in the desperate pursuit of growth, confused true innovation—creating things that work—with fraudulent “innovation-speak.” The result is, as the authors put it, an “unholy marriage of Silicon Valley’s conceit with the worst of Wall Street’s sociopathy.”
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