This was a fascinating/scary read and I love the accompanying illustrations. The word 'stakeholders' usually refers to all who are affected by a corporation's actions. Employees are stakeholders as are the people who live in the environment in which business is being conducted--like people living near pipelines that rupture.
There is this, too. The government wants to capture tax that is fleeing to offshore havens and that is easier to do through a 'reset.'
The over all cultural, social impact favors people who are autistic or on the spectrum. When technology becomes the dominant way of interacting some of us develop an acquired form of autism, imo.
But through technology enabled social media, some of us have become more tribal, more emotional as well.
It's possible that the connective tissue between the two modes of being is black and white thinking. Lack of subtlety that plays on the hyper rational, utilitarian left brain. And on the extrovert spectrum--the black and white thinking that kicks in when people become part of a mob.
The people who seem to be benefiting from the fire hose of info and images online, are the artists, the writers, the creatives. That might be the self correcting mechanism that checks some of the worst of the downsides of an authoritarian technocracy.
I am sorry if you made all of these points in your article already. Maybe I am being redundant.
Not redundant observations at all! I have been thinking about writing something about the construction of identity in the digital age...it does favour those on the spectrum, i think. And it does seem the binary thinking, and associated political division online, is largely an artifact of herd behaviour commodified and accelerated by algorithms favouring ‘engagement.’ Of course, those algorithms are written by people.
I hope you’re right that artistry and creativity acts as some kind of self-correcting mechanism to authoritarian technocracy. Emergent novelty in complex systems (from cellular to social) is never predictable, it only appears to be ‘inevitable’ after the fact. But with the rise of AI, that can go either well, terrible, or both!
Hi Geoff,
This was a fascinating/scary read and I love the accompanying illustrations. The word 'stakeholders' usually refers to all who are affected by a corporation's actions. Employees are stakeholders as are the people who live in the environment in which business is being conducted--like people living near pipelines that rupture.
There is this, too. The government wants to capture tax that is fleeing to offshore havens and that is easier to do through a 'reset.'
The over all cultural, social impact favors people who are autistic or on the spectrum. When technology becomes the dominant way of interacting some of us develop an acquired form of autism, imo.
But through technology enabled social media, some of us have become more tribal, more emotional as well.
It's possible that the connective tissue between the two modes of being is black and white thinking. Lack of subtlety that plays on the hyper rational, utilitarian left brain. And on the extrovert spectrum--the black and white thinking that kicks in when people become part of a mob.
The people who seem to be benefiting from the fire hose of info and images online, are the artists, the writers, the creatives. That might be the self correcting mechanism that checks some of the worst of the downsides of an authoritarian technocracy.
I am sorry if you made all of these points in your article already. Maybe I am being redundant.
Not redundant observations at all! I have been thinking about writing something about the construction of identity in the digital age...it does favour those on the spectrum, i think. And it does seem the binary thinking, and associated political division online, is largely an artifact of herd behaviour commodified and accelerated by algorithms favouring ‘engagement.’ Of course, those algorithms are written by people.
I hope you’re right that artistry and creativity acts as some kind of self-correcting mechanism to authoritarian technocracy. Emergent novelty in complex systems (from cellular to social) is never predictable, it only appears to be ‘inevitable’ after the fact. But with the rise of AI, that can go either well, terrible, or both!