Thank you for the summary of 'Power & Progress'. Recently bought a copy and look forward to reeading it after I've finished David Noble's "The Religion of Technology".
I hope the dream of SST (The Social Shaping of Technology, MacKenzie & Wacjman, 1985) will one day happen. Because with AI, if it doesn't, we will either have a hugely powerful tool in the hands of the current elite power-brokers (whose track-record in using power is hardly for the benefit of all), or some unknown chaos in a free-for-all.
Thank you for the recommendation - David Noble's "The Religion of Technology". It looks like an interesting read.
SST was self-imposed compulsory reading during my doctoral degree. Breaking the monopoly of power is not easy... SST pointed a way, but we have always had barons / power-brokers of some type - eg Lord Northcliff. We certainly need to find a way to limit control of AGI.
"We certainly need to find a way to limit control of AGI." One of my favourite quotes is from the Founder of The Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester - Percy Redfern's 1920 manifesto "The Consumers' Place in Society". I think it speaks how people-power can work in relation to the industrial machine. How relevant it is in today's world with respect to the development of AGI, I'm not sure:
"In our common everyday needs the great industries of the world take their rise. We – the mass of common men and women in all countries - also compose the world’s markets. To sell to us is the ultimate aim of the world’s business. Hence it is ourselves as consumers who stand in a central relation to all the economies of the world, like the king in his kingdom. As producers we go unto a particular factory, farm or mine, but as consumers we are set by nature thus to give leadership, aim and purpose to the whole economic world. That we are not kings, but serfs in the mass, is due to our failure to think and act together as consumers and so to realise our true position and power.”
Percy Redfern’s quote on the power of the consumer, (Issue:1, The Ethical Consumer Magazine, 1989) — {original may have been quoted from Redfern’s book “The Consumer’s Place in Society”, 1920].
Its not a Nobel Prize, its a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic “Sciences”, which is a fake Nobel Prize that a bunch of high ups from transnational corporations and international finance, through the person of the Swizz central bank, bribed the Nobel Committee into awarding so that charlatans could be draped in a false credibility that assist them in pushing public relations copy to advance those same high ups interests, some of which, ironically given this post, involve the suppression of technological development
Thank you for the summary of 'Power & Progress'. Recently bought a copy and look forward to reeading it after I've finished David Noble's "The Religion of Technology".
I hope the dream of SST (The Social Shaping of Technology, MacKenzie & Wacjman, 1985) will one day happen. Because with AI, if it doesn't, we will either have a hugely powerful tool in the hands of the current elite power-brokers (whose track-record in using power is hardly for the benefit of all), or some unknown chaos in a free-for-all.
Thank you for the recommendation - David Noble's "The Religion of Technology". It looks like an interesting read.
SST was self-imposed compulsory reading during my doctoral degree. Breaking the monopoly of power is not easy... SST pointed a way, but we have always had barons / power-brokers of some type - eg Lord Northcliff. We certainly need to find a way to limit control of AGI.
"We certainly need to find a way to limit control of AGI." One of my favourite quotes is from the Founder of The Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester - Percy Redfern's 1920 manifesto "The Consumers' Place in Society". I think it speaks how people-power can work in relation to the industrial machine. How relevant it is in today's world with respect to the development of AGI, I'm not sure:
"In our common everyday needs the great industries of the world take their rise. We – the mass of common men and women in all countries - also compose the world’s markets. To sell to us is the ultimate aim of the world’s business. Hence it is ourselves as consumers who stand in a central relation to all the economies of the world, like the king in his kingdom. As producers we go unto a particular factory, farm or mine, but as consumers we are set by nature thus to give leadership, aim and purpose to the whole economic world. That we are not kings, but serfs in the mass, is due to our failure to think and act together as consumers and so to realise our true position and power.”
Percy Redfern’s quote on the power of the consumer, (Issue:1, The Ethical Consumer Magazine, 1989) — {original may have been quoted from Redfern’s book “The Consumer’s Place in Society”, 1920].
Its not a Nobel Prize, its a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic “Sciences”, which is a fake Nobel Prize that a bunch of high ups from transnational corporations and international finance, through the person of the Swizz central bank, bribed the Nobel Committee into awarding so that charlatans could be draped in a false credibility that assist them in pushing public relations copy to advance those same high ups interests, some of which, ironically given this post, involve the suppression of technological development