What does it mean to be human in the age of technology?
by Tom Chatfield from Technology | The Guardian on (#11AAF)
Meaningful collaboration between people and machines must not subvert human creativity, feeling and questioning over speed, profit and efficiency
When I think about the future of human-machine interactions, two entwined anxieties come to mind.
First, there is the tension between individual and collective existence. Technology connects us to each other as never before, and in doing so makes explicit the degree to which we are defined and anticipated by others: the ways in which our ideas and identities do not simply belong to us, but are part of a larger human ebb and flow.
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