Interruptions

I want to be ever ready to be interrupted by people in need of help, or to simply talk. But I do not have the same obligation to computers or robots or programs or phones. – E.O.

Roosevelt’s New Deal

“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: ‘The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly...

Expressive Individualism

“Because human beings live and negotiate the world as bodies, they are necessarily subject to vulnerability, dependence, and finitude common to all living embodied beings, with all of the attendant challenges and gifts that follow. Thus, the anthropology of the...

Illumine My Darkness

“What in me is dark, illumine;  What is low, raise and support;  That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men.” – John Milton

Chat-bot Delusions

“Amid an arms race in which the biggest tech companies are raising and spending tens of billions of dollars to gain AI supremacy—in part by making their bots feel more human— they are also grappling with the ways their products can encourage delusional thinking,...

Facebook

“While it creates the impression that it offers choice, Facebook paternalistically nudges users in the direction it deems best for them, which also happens to be the direction that thoroughly addicts them.” – Franklin Foer