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Feels appropriate that my second post is a moan about the insistence that technology-linked Arts funding apps must contain AI to be successful, yet it's a bizarre requirement that will mostly produce bizarre meaningless nonsense, and also waste a lot of money.
May 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Dear Politicians,
Technology won't save us!
Hope and dreams of a better society might. Maybe try that?
Love, Benji x
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM