I like how the author makes the point that the problems with social media are bigger than privacy + surveillance alone.
> The forces it has unleashed will affect future elections and even our ability to tell fact from fiction, increasing the divisions within society.
> Yes, online privacy is a real problem that needs to be addressed. But even the best privacy laws are only as effective as our Paleolithic [primitive] emotions are resistant to the seductions of technology.
Based on the article’s direction:
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1) what does it mean to be “humane” tech ?
As the author argues - You could add friction to the large tech firms, even make attention marketing unviable.
Then use that to fund “humane” solutions (editors and journalists ? Would that be human or humane?)
Does that solve the potential abuse of tech and human wet ware ?
Or Are we supposed to eventually say “Dune got it right, we should only have mentats”
Edit: no time for point two, distracted.