Nice little summation of the role tech plays in removing the “need” for intervention/assistance from a person in the loop. Ideally everything is DIY, freeing you to spend less of your valuable time waiting to perform a key activity, chore if you will, for work or daily life. The more those automations occur, the more we are disengaged from our human experience. We’re just stimuli and actors, not so much something with agency, self-actualization, and of course empathy.
One of the things I immediately recognized was the mention of Jon Kabat-Zinn (he of Cognitive Based Therapy of pain management) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn. But they re-use the idea of being “present” and emphasizing that slowly eroding human connection, and connected-ness to real life experience. Glad to see such a humanistic essay in Campus Technology website.
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