Technology was an exciting tool we could use to make our lives better. But instead of humans using technology as a tool, it now wants to use us as a tool to harvest and sell the data it reaps from us to the highest bidder, which has enormous market value.
The partnership between technology and Wall Street sees humans as a profit-making venture for investors to "make a killing" and become unicorn billionaires. Many of us, however, are now having second thoughts about all the "surveillance capitalism" operating in our lives. We're not comfortable with Google tracking our every move, Facebook's outsized role in influencing politics, X's propensity to divide us into extreme camps, Instagram's effect on mental health and body-conscious concerns, and TikTok's ability to monetize our attention and shape our opinions . . .
-Kevin Ervin Kelley, Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together
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The world, now, is so different to the one I remember in my early going. And, I suspect, it will only get worse -- a lot worse. Thanks for sharing the quote; I'll check out the book.
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