With most dystopian lines of tech critique, the case can be made that they give too much credit to industry claims about AI, or virtual reality, or the metaverse, or whatever concept venture capitalists are trying to push. It's generally a good idea not to take a tech company's stated ambitions at face value or as inevitably coming to fruition, though I often fall into this trap myself. What tech companies claim to want to achieve is usually damning enough, but sometimes playing it out on their own terms can seem to reveal how much more warped their aspirations are and how much more damage they would have to do to make their ambitions realizable. I tend to be skeptical that technology developed under such auspices can ever be redeemed.
Someone has hung the mirror here
Someone has hung the mirror here
Someone has hung the mirror here
With most dystopian lines of tech critique, the case can be made that they give too much credit to industry claims about AI, or virtual reality, or the metaverse, or whatever concept venture capitalists are trying to push. It's generally a good idea not to take a tech company's stated ambitions at face value or as inevitably coming to fruition, though I often fall into this trap myself. What tech companies claim to want to achieve is usually damning enough, but sometimes playing it out on their own terms can seem to reveal how much more warped their aspirations are and how much more damage they would have to do to make their ambitions realizable. I tend to be skeptical that technology developed under such auspices can ever be redeemed.