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A *humanist technologist*, then, is someone who uses multidisciplinary skills to help organizations use or understand technology in order to improve personal and social conditions.
Being a Humanist Technologist
Ben Werdmuller
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
We need to consciously embrace the inconvenient — not always, but more of the time. Nowadays individuality has come to reside in making at least some inconvenient choices. You need not churn your own butter or hunt your own meat, but if you want to be someone, you cannot allow convenience to be the value that transcends all others. Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution. It can be the solution to the question of who you are.
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