What Tech Says
Jan 29, 2021Are tech companies really “making the world a better place”? Isn’t “disruption” just code for circumventing legal regulations and ignoring labor laws? Does Silicon Valley really believe its own hype? On this week's show we’re thinking about “The Rhetoric of Big Tech.”
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Harold G. Neuman
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 -- 5:30 AM
Was beginning to think I was我开始觉得我是唯一一个还重视隐私的人。注意到这篇文章出现在你的拖车里。每天，似乎都有来自“社交媒体”的问题，以及利用社交媒体做各种合法、非法的事情的狂热者。这不是一个天真和没有经验的地方。最近，我简要地回答了你关于科学过度扩张的问题——参见我的评论/问题——。我认为SM的兴起可能会激起类似的情绪。当然，我们珍惜言论自由，一般来说是表达自由。尽管我们现在监管着几乎所有的事情，包括历史，但我想，我们是否应该更关注我们的自由应该走多远。至于越权的问题，很明显我们乐此不疲。我既看不出也不推荐一个解决方案:我们已经挖好了坑。 We may as well crawl into it...
Tim Smith
Friday, March 5, 2021 -- 9:27 PM
Big Tech has legitimateBig Tech has legitimate business models now and going forward. We need to find the solutions that compliment humanity and public welfare. Big Tech has a role in those solutions. Many companies speak to this role already.
We have yet to harvest the benefits of quantum computing, nanotech, biology, material science and artificial intelligence. Once that is done we can settle just what a human being is. Already we are pseudo cyborgs with our phones. I'm not sure ultimately where this ends. Ecological issues are more important for sure. Tomorrow is not going to be anything like today... and yesterday will be a faint memory.
I'm not sure what is best. Neither does Big Tech. Neither does Xi or Putin or Brin or Gates. There is no golden path here. Only human beings. Let's be kind, productive and as true to ourselves as we can. There are too many problems to overcome to blame any one entity.
Harold G. Neuman
Monday, April 12, 2021 -- 5:54 AM
I think we agree on yourI think we agree on your final point. I have called the conundrum a totality of circumstances. And, I think there are many seeming marvelous developments which, in more or less time, come back to bite us in the butt. Unwitting overreach, as it might be characterized. More than once the argument has been proffered: are we to do things, just because we can? That's a pessimist's stance. Still, it appears to me that know-how often overrides the better angels of our narure, leaving us with metaphorical bullet holes in our feet. Just sayin'.
Tim Smith
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 -- 11:14 PM
Yes, I do think we agree on aYes, I do think we agree on a/the conundrum. I look at my fellow humans now, the next generation, and what is left of my elders and we are a different breed than in my youth. We don't think the same, act the same. We are changing. I'm hesitant to call foul when I don't see where the path is leading us. Best to you Harold.