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Facial recognition technology doesn’t simply “recognize faces”; it reconfigures the idea of privacy and distributes new kinds of power, risk, opportunity, and vulnerability across society.
Dave Karpf describes this kind of thinking as “technological pragmatism,” which involves recognizing that technologies are “catalysts of change” and that “the direction of that change is determined through design choices, and through the social forces of existing institutional arrangements, financial incentives, and power structures.”
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You may not have read *Sapiens* by Yuval Noah Harari, but everyone else has. And this feels like enough.
Short Notes on the Ageing Process
Matthew McDonald
What if, however, most people didn’t aspire to make content, to be content, to pursue fame, to subordinate friendship to commercial practice? The rise of social media was largely an effort to normalize the choices of “prosuming” and ultimately living life as content, which may have enriched the platforms and a handful of individual users but further imposed its terms, its anxieties and competitive pressures, on the billions of the rest of us.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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