Well, automatic brakes, steering "guidance" etc. are all in the EUSSR parliament's pipeline, being rolled out this year is mandatory break systems for all new cars - as in the car prevents the driver from exceeding the speed limit, something that may be necessary to avoid an accident.
Only, a computer cannot make that call. But the image…
Well, automatic brakes, steering "guidance" etc. are all in the EUSSR parliament's pipeline, being rolled out this year is mandatory break systems for all new cars - as in the car prevents the driver from exceeding the speed limit, something that may be necessary to avoid an accident.
Only, a computer cannot make that call. But the image if the engineer hero is to strongly imprinted, I guess. Problem? Technofy it! Didn't work? Clearly an even more complex and complicated techno-techno solution is needed!
Such as the soon-to-be mandatory Black Box in each car, initially for passive data collection in case of accident.
Well, guess what? It will active, and it will report every bit of info to the coming centralised EU department of transportation.
Expect fees and taxes for the climate automatically deducted from your accounts if you drive over your allotted monthly quota.
It's high time for all motor enthusiasts and real engineers (the guys who use their heads hands, not auto-CAD models) to develop wood gas converter kits and easy-to-use DKW. Simple, mechanical technology without electronics.
Oh, and expect the same kind of surveillance re: health and consumer habits.
So you really want to buy that Snickers bar if it lowers your social score, citizen?
It's the infantilisation of humankind by technology, sure.
It's the ever-tightening grip of 'progress', which has humankind it is stranglehold.
As an example from my line of work, does the name 'Grammarly' ring a bell? It's an English-language pay-for-use app that 'proof-reads' and 'streamlines' your college work before submission.
Never mind the fact that this has become 'necesary' (as in: an option) in countries that don't educate their young. English--or any mother tongue--used to be a prerequisite of college, not a 'nice-to-have (but not essential)'.
Re the quip about the Snickers score: true, but given high taxes on, say, booze and tobacco, they will probably continue to be o.k., albeit 'only' if you walk home from the bar (because your car won't move if it detects booze on your breath). Mind you, I'm not for drunk driving, I'm just bringing up the implications.
I do not mind technology for humans to use; it's letting technology ictate what humans do that is the problem.
I was loathed by students for one thing, which I stuck to adamantly: papers are to be written by hand, no excuses. A trait I inherited from my own tutor. She would give exams in english lit like this one: read Heart of Darkness. Write an essay analysing the text from a chosen perspective of literary ananlysis (say Freudian, marxist, poststructuralist, and so on - free choice). First draft in lead pencil, second in ink, finished in ink. All three written by hand, on time (we got four hours total, no breaks, bring snacks) and to be handed in. Any reference material to be shown beforehand (for quotes and correct annotation).
Handwriting is good for the brain's development, too. First thing I've one with any device is turn off spell check (fuck that, a machine is a tool, it does not get to tell me what or how to write an I own my mistakes thankya verra much!) and dictionary. Only, the current generation software does not allow it. So we've gone from device to e-vice, I'd say. Also, we've gone back to the age of illiterates simply copying symbols from one script to another; reinventing the human Xerox machine.
Fun thing: my brother is very much into technology, both from interest and due to work (self taught software techie and now tutoring geologist). I regularly annoy him pointing out that the true worth in any machine can only be measured along the axes of reliability/durability, and human control. As in, my tools. While I use power tools, they remain tools, and I retain and have started collecting manual tools. They don't wear out and don't break (unless made of chinesium, which older tools aren't). Wy West German hammer f.e.
Geologists today use drones, lasers, what have you. All the software is based on models and modelling, meaning any rounding error anywhere gets compounded every step of the way. As long as it works, it works great. Problm is, when it stops working they can no longer whip out a slide ruler and do the math in their heads.
Brither, being smart, acknowledges this but informs me that quiblling about technofetisch-isation is a surefire way to get bypassed on the career track. It's faster, harder, scooter all the way to Metropolis.
If you think, your example is the same for Computer graphics: when CG draw a line is not a line is an approximation of a line or a curve/circle. No matter if you have HD, 2k, 4k, 8k, is always something fake, an optical illusion of a line/curve...
But they sell us as high definition! Ha, ha, ah...
In the 80/90s there was a technology to make a perfect line/curve called vector graphics, but it couldn't reproduce colors as much as raster graphics.
So yep, hands could draw things that machines can't even imagine!
Well, automatic brakes, steering "guidance" etc. are all in the EUSSR parliament's pipeline, being rolled out this year is mandatory break systems for all new cars - as in the car prevents the driver from exceeding the speed limit, something that may be necessary to avoid an accident.
Only, a computer cannot make that call. But the image if the engineer hero is to strongly imprinted, I guess. Problem? Technofy it! Didn't work? Clearly an even more complex and complicated techno-techno solution is needed!
Such as the soon-to-be mandatory Black Box in each car, initially for passive data collection in case of accident.
Well, guess what? It will active, and it will report every bit of info to the coming centralised EU department of transportation.
Expect fees and taxes for the climate automatically deducted from your accounts if you drive over your allotted monthly quota.
It's high time for all motor enthusiasts and real engineers (the guys who use their heads hands, not auto-CAD models) to develop wood gas converter kits and easy-to-use DKW. Simple, mechanical technology without electronics.
Oh, and expect the same kind of surveillance re: health and consumer habits.
So you really want to buy that Snickers bar if it lowers your social score, citizen?
It's the infantilisation of humankind by technology, sure.
It's the ever-tightening grip of 'progress', which has humankind it is stranglehold.
As an example from my line of work, does the name 'Grammarly' ring a bell? It's an English-language pay-for-use app that 'proof-reads' and 'streamlines' your college work before submission.
Never mind the fact that this has become 'necesary' (as in: an option) in countries that don't educate their young. English--or any mother tongue--used to be a prerequisite of college, not a 'nice-to-have (but not essential)'.
Re the quip about the Snickers score: true, but given high taxes on, say, booze and tobacco, they will probably continue to be o.k., albeit 'only' if you walk home from the bar (because your car won't move if it detects booze on your breath). Mind you, I'm not for drunk driving, I'm just bringing up the implications.
Hal?
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
I do not mind technology for humans to use; it's letting technology ictate what humans do that is the problem.
I was loathed by students for one thing, which I stuck to adamantly: papers are to be written by hand, no excuses. A trait I inherited from my own tutor. She would give exams in english lit like this one: read Heart of Darkness. Write an essay analysing the text from a chosen perspective of literary ananlysis (say Freudian, marxist, poststructuralist, and so on - free choice). First draft in lead pencil, second in ink, finished in ink. All three written by hand, on time (we got four hours total, no breaks, bring snacks) and to be handed in. Any reference material to be shown beforehand (for quotes and correct annotation).
Handwriting is good for the brain's development, too. First thing I've one with any device is turn off spell check (fuck that, a machine is a tool, it does not get to tell me what or how to write an I own my mistakes thankya verra much!) and dictionary. Only, the current generation software does not allow it. So we've gone from device to e-vice, I'd say. Also, we've gone back to the age of illiterates simply copying symbols from one script to another; reinventing the human Xerox machine.
Fun thing: my brother is very much into technology, both from interest and due to work (self taught software techie and now tutoring geologist). I regularly annoy him pointing out that the true worth in any machine can only be measured along the axes of reliability/durability, and human control. As in, my tools. While I use power tools, they remain tools, and I retain and have started collecting manual tools. They don't wear out and don't break (unless made of chinesium, which older tools aren't). Wy West German hammer f.e.
Geologists today use drones, lasers, what have you. All the software is based on models and modelling, meaning any rounding error anywhere gets compounded every step of the way. As long as it works, it works great. Problm is, when it stops working they can no longer whip out a slide ruler and do the math in their heads.
Brither, being smart, acknowledges this but informs me that quiblling about technofetisch-isation is a surefire way to get bypassed on the career track. It's faster, harder, scooter all the way to Metropolis.
I'll let the the seplling errors stay.
Nice thoughts!
If you think, your example is the same for Computer graphics: when CG draw a line is not a line is an approximation of a line or a curve/circle. No matter if you have HD, 2k, 4k, 8k, is always something fake, an optical illusion of a line/curve...
But they sell us as high definition! Ha, ha, ah...
In the 80/90s there was a technology to make a perfect line/curve called vector graphics, but it couldn't reproduce colors as much as raster graphics.
So yep, hands could draw things that machines can't even imagine!