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The most powerful people in the world are optimists. Their optimism is not helping.
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Far from the unlikely bedfellows they first seemed to be, large parts of the modern wellness industry are proving to be all too compatible with far-right notions of natural hierarchies, genetic superiority, and disposable people.
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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