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🗓️ 9 August 2017
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age.
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0:00.0 | Every app that you put on your phone is a business plan that you're welcoming into your life. |
0:09.0 | They're going to get your data and they can sell that to some extent, but in the end the data is useless unless they can use that data to change your behavior. |
0:21.0 | Because the more predictable you are, the more money can be made off you. |
0:27.1 | We're living in an attention economy and because human attention is the only thing that's scarce but human attention is the only thing that's scarce, but human |
0:33.4 | attention is the only thing we have. That's our time. They're buying and selling |
0:36.8 | human time and that's our lives. Guys like you know Elon Musk, these folks who then warn us about, oh, AI is coming, and that they're doing that just to sell their technology. |
0:52.0 | I'm less concerned with with AI's taking over us or or computers |
0:56.8 | dominating us and us becoming computers. |
1:01.0 | You know the whole beauty of me looking in your eyes now and it doesn't have to be |
1:04.0 | psychedelic is are we separate things or are we the same thing and it's kind of |
1:08.8 | both and we don't know and we can sort of live with that and it's scary and |
1:11.6 | weird and intimate what that and it's scary and weird and intimate. Gay is what is that? |
1:14.5 | It's not binary but it's not together. |
1:17.1 | It's something else. |
1:19.5 | Computers, AI don't know that. |
1:22.2 | They don't they don't live in that liminal realm. That's intelligence to me. So, You're going to. |
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