What is Humanity Over Technology about?
“Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all the more powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believes in the inevitability of progress.”
— Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
We live in a society that places more value on technological progress than human progress.
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A core belief of the publication is this: Technology is a biased actor that shapes our modes of thought, our social relations, the actions we take, and the society we produce. Blind deification of technological progress degrades humanity.
Communication technologies, more so than other technologies, transform society in disparate and unpredictable ways. Information with no place to go is dangerous. It is the role and responsibility of an engaged government to ensure that the attentional and informational commons serve the public interest.
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