Something mesmerizingly both in and out of sync in the tandem of these two items on the bsky feed:

Stumbled upon an old interview excerpt by a person who judges the worth of an entity by it's ability of "getting any information out" (spoiler: humans have damned slow bandwidth). What happens if you trust such a conceptual approach to make decisions for many, many millions of us?

Reading on new technologies — like this take on quantum applications by @luizajarovsky.bsky.social — I wonder: Do we need complex medicines or a healthier world? Cybersecurity or real safety? AI or reasonable humanity? Optimised investments or fairer economies? New materials or harmony with nature?

Since when did it become a thing to imagine that if we had a device on our face, we could "navigate the world, remember people, classify things"? What I do imagine - and experience - is how easy it is to lose access to those abilities with assistive tech. Quote from www.newcomer.co/i/156652795/...