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I call “the New Jim Code”: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.8 Like other kinds of codes that we think of as neutral, “normal” names have power by virtue of their perceived neutrality. They trigger stories about what kind of person is behind the name – their personality and potential, where they come from but also where they should go.
Race After Technology
Benjamin, Ruha
Scott, though, believed in a more optimistic story. At one point, he told me, about seventy per cent of Americans worked in agriculture. Technological advances reduced those labor needs, and today just 1.2 per cent of the workforce farms. But that doesn’t mean there are millions of out-of-work farmers: many such people became truck drivers, or returned to school and became accountants, or found other paths. “Perhaps to a greater extent than any technological revolution preceding it, A.I. could be used to revitalize the American Dream,” Scott has written.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
Schwartz is absolutely right to say that “what reading teaches, first and foremost, is how to sit still for long periods and confront time head-on. The dynamism is all inside, an exalted, spiritual exercise so utterly engaging that we forget time and mortality along with all of life’s lesser woes, and simply bask in the everlasting present.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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