Remembering that technology outsources human activity to a machine should be enough to steer us clear of apps whose ambitious developers hope will produce better humans than humans. Treating each other first as objects and then as groups, mediated by technological interfaces, just makes it cheaper, faster, easier to isolate and demonize one another. Relying on such systems means that we trade judgment for efficiency, reflection for obedience, inquiry for conformity, and independence for constraint. Only organizations or individuals that are implicitly authoritarian would arrogate to themselves the right to tell people who they are and what they might become.
-Margaret Heffernan, Uncharted: How To Navigate The Future
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