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Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement

AI and modern information technologies connect people while isolating them and destabilizing public life, prompting rational fears among new workers.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"We're Becoming More and More Disconnected as a Society": Alex Prager on DreamQuil

Pursuing happiness through AI automation risks eroding the human connections and responsibilities that give life meaning.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': The future is now

Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, set in 2026, prophetically depicted AI and automation concerns that mirror modern anxieties about technological displacement and social inequality.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement

AI and modern information technologies connect people while isolating them and destabilizing public life, prompting rational fears among new workers.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"We're Becoming More and More Disconnected as a Society": Alex Prager on DreamQuil

Pursuing happiness through AI automation risks eroding the human connections and responsibilities that give life meaning.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': The future is now

Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, set in 2026, prophetically depicted AI and automation concerns that mirror modern anxieties about technological displacement and social inequality.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Is Humanity on a Self-Destructive Trajectory?

Technological power has outpaced psychological development, causing small-group emotional reactions to drive rapid online conflict and prevent listening.
Silicon Valley
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix

Algorithms shaped daily choices, and embracing randomness through self-made tools created a sense of freedom and escape.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Artificial Intelligence: Its Challenge for Human Experience

Machines lack sympathy and moral reflection, while people sacrifice, create, and live and die with agency and bravery.
Television
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Lisa Kudrow Worries About the Whole 'Social Unrest' Element of AI Taking Everyone's Jobs

The Comeback's third season satirizes AI in Hollywood through Valerie Cherish starring in an AI-generated sitcom, exploring job displacement fears and societal concerns about artificial intelligence.
Science
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek | TechCrunch

Peter Diamandis launched a $3.5 million XPrize to encourage optimistic science fiction depicting technology as a force for good, countering the current trend of dystopian narratives in media.
#contemporary-art
fromArtnet News
2 months ago
Arts

A New Group Show Asks: 'How Should We Live With A.I.?'

A MASS MoCA exhibition explores technology and AI through art, emphasizing agency, inclusion, and imagining liberatory futures beyond dystopian narratives.
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago
Arts

The 2026 Whitney Biennial asks big questions about how we live now

The 2026 Whitney Biennial features 56 artists exploring interconnected systems of technology, power, and geopolitical influence rather than focusing on a single unifying theme.
Arts
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

The 2026 Whitney Biennial asks big questions about how we live now

The 2026 Whitney Biennial features 56 artists exploring interconnected systems of technology, power, and geopolitical influence rather than focusing on a single unifying theme.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Write a card, read a poem, take fewer photos: how to feel more human in 2026

mobile phones were far from universal and our social lives were mostly physical and local. In the 25 years since, technology has changed how we live in profound ways. Most people check their phone within minutes of waking and return to it on average 186 times a day. Computers and the systems that sit behind them mediate every aspect of modern life, shaping how we move through the world.
Mindfulness
UX design
fromMedium
5 months ago

Thought-shaped UI, sigma () shaped designers, Figma's new DS features

Choose between thought-shaped interfaces atop legacy systems or rebuilding software from the ground up to faithfully represent human thought and preserve agency.
fromwww.archdaily.com
6 months ago

Smart City Graz Square / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten

Current developments show that smartness cannot only be a technology-driven urban development. This may answer technical questions of a smart future, but the social and societal aspects of living together are generally not addressed. The social compatibility of technological development, which also includes housing that meets the needs and financial possibilities of users, falls by the wayside, although this claim is repeatedly formulated.
Remodel
Tech industry
fromFuncheap
9 months ago

Explore Techlash: Ethical Tech Talk (Alameda)

The rise of a human-focused technology sector counteracts the negative impacts of traditional tech practices.
Digital life
fromFuturism
10 months ago

Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

AI companions can evoke real emotional connections and complex relationship dynamics among users.
Writing
fromwww.npr.org
11 months ago

Peter Mendelsund discusses 'Weepers,' his novel about professional mourners

Cowboy poets like Ed find unique roles in society, even amidst technological fears.
Weepers, or professional mourners, symbolize a deeper emotional engagement absent in many today.
Digital life
fromIndependent
11 months ago

Tanya Sweeney: Is to too extreme to ban phones from any place where humans are trying to connect and meet?

Disconnecting from devices during social gatherings can lead to an immediate craving for them afterward.
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