TED talk technology/misunderstanding

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This is about 17mins, it's not all about kids that's just the example he's using. I found it really interesting.

https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w

I will be looking out for other things by this guy, what does everyone else think?

It's about how we are misusing technology to brainwash ourselves, and AI is based on our crappy info that we

have been piling into it through things like you tube, ohh just bl**dy watch it.

Interesting video. I think the problem arises from human nature and over-competition. In a world with much more prosperity, I don't think people would be as likely or kind of desperate to do these kinds of videos like you see at the end of the chain with kind of superhero soft-porn.

I also wonder how many of the views come from unattended computers while Auto-Play bounces around in the algorithms.

There are also other examples of bizarre desperate attention seeking videos like Parkour Free Runners who often wind up with horrific injuries or sometimes fall off of buildings. Maybe those are more likely to get the attention of older kids.

Another trend is anything 'Extreme Food' from eating things until you puke like Dairy Challenges or forms of Stunt Cooking such as the Epic Meal Time channel. If people aren't up to that, they'll harass and prank the Drive-Thru at McDonalds.


One of my interests is Marshall Mcluhan who I think was very insightful and coined the phrase "The Medium is the Message.". He felt that the medium of communication had even more influence on people than the content. He was also critical of how electronic media was used by people he felt no understanding of it.

What is shown in that video is kind of what Mcluhan was talking about, but a much worse form than he ever imagined. It's kind of like deluded behavior pushed into a system that creates a Feedback-Loop amplifying it.





Discussing information technology in 1966.



Marshall McLuhan 1965 - The Future of Man in the Electric Age