"While We Were Looking Over There" is the second episode of the @Everything They Know podcast.
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Quotes
"To the ancient world, we’d seem like a society of depressed wizards. [...] We are the tools that technology is using to make itself smarter, more efficient, and more ubiquitous." ~ @Ari Andersen
"The companies can't solve this. they can be part of the solution, but what we need as a society is to incentivize them to participate in a solution." ~ @Judy Estrin
"Society is a very important combination of strong personal autonomy, or liberty, and valuing interdependence. For societies to work, you don't want weak people, that's is @Authoritarianism. A healthy society wants strong individuals that feel secure enough to share power and value interdependence so we can interact as a collective. We are degrading both." ~ @Judy Estrin
"One of the interesting questions is the difference between speaking and being heard."
Contexts
- #ari-andersen (See: @Ari Andersen)
- #everything-they-know (See: @Everything They Know)
- #judy-estrin (See: @Judy Estrin)
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