NEXT19 | James Bridle | New Dark Age: Is Technology Making the World Harder to Understand? 

this is legit one of the most gripping thinkers I've encountered in the past few years.

wow, this is just amazing, this is something we NEED to discuss if we want a better future

Well... this is when people ditch morality for money...

He looks like Karl Pilkington

Geo Engineering led to Orchestrated hurricanes , floods

I won't be surprised if his disappeared

Computational thinking, at an unconscious level, surmises that the world can be understood better and better, if we have all the information necessary in order to make the best possible decisions. The pundits and technocrats advocate (often without any real evidence) that the ‘richness of information’ makes us more literate and wiser. However in reality, vast aspects of the natural world, systems created by nature, including our own existence, in terms of functionality and behavior, cannot be mapped or made sense of by mere computational thinking. The world simply cannot be deciphered (nor so easily mimicked) by a set of processes, formulas, steps, algorithms and deductions. Did we become better decision makers because of information technology or did a vast set of superior machines, computation, processing and policies replace the previous order? As individuals then, we have little time or space, to care about the consequences of such high-modernist technological education. Does computational thinking serve us or the other way around?

this book was borderline incoherent ramblings about random tech. no overarching narrative. no major ideas to show. very odd book. huge let down. someone needs to write a real one cuz the new dark age is real, and tech is a big factor in it