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- Aug 2023
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We are in the midst of a remarkable social and civic experiment: democracy by device
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- We are in the midst of a remarkable social and civic experiment, democracy by device
- author: Barry Chudakov
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Technology’s greatest contribution to social and civic innovation in the next decade will be to provide accurate, user-friendly context and honest assessment of issues, problems and potential solutions
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- Technology’s greatest contribution to social and civic innovation in the next decade
- will be to provide
- accurate, user-friendly context and
- honest assessment of
- issues,
- problems and
- potential solutions / comment - indyweb /
- We are facing greater accelerations of
- climate change,
- social mobility,
- pollution,
- immigration and
- resource issues.
- Our problems have gone from complicated to wicked.
- We need
- clear answers and
- discussions that are
- cogent,
- relevant and
- true to facts.
- Technology must guard against becoming a platform to enable targeted chaos,
- that is, using technology as a means to
- obfuscate and
- manipulate.
- We are all now living in Sim City:
- The digital world is showing us a sim,
- or digital mirror,
- of each aspect of reality.
- The most successful social and civic innovation I expect to see by 2030
- is a massive restructuring of our educational systems based on new and emerging mirror digital worlds. / comment: This bodes well for Indyweb for education/
- We will then need to expand our information presentations to include
- verifiable factfulness that ensures any digital presentation faithfully and
- accurately matches the physical realities.
- Just as medicine went from
- bloodletting and leeches and lobotomies to
- open-heart surgery and artificial limbs,
- technology will begin to modernize information flows around core issues: urgent need, future implications, accurate assessment.
- Technology can play a crucial role to move humanity
- from blame fantasies
- to focused attention and working solutions.”
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