1 In television commercials people interact with Siri and Alexa as if they were actual artificial intelligences...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
2 …that is to say, as if they were capable of actually-intelligent, actually-respons(ive/able) interactions with human beings.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
3 I used to think the clear difference of interactions between humans and devices and these hilariously false portrayals…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
4 …would render people more skeptical of "Tech" claims more generally. I see now how wrong I was, and even begin to understand why.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
5 It is not so much that people think their own inept devices perform with the seamless perfection of the lies on tee vee…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
6 …but that the lies create the frame in which they interpret these failures as intimations of perfections to come.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
7 A commercial for a quite conventional laptop computer this holiday season culminates in the declaration on the part of its owner…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
8 …that using the device makes her feel "she is living in The Future." After saying so, she chuckles, and her laughter is crucial:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
9 She knows her device is really the usual disappointing, landfill-destined piece of crap, but this "knowing" is the occasion…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
10 …for the ideological pleasure she takes in imbuing the object with the Romance of The Future (which is what is being sold here)…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
11 …which depends very specifically on NOT assuming a critical or organizational stance in respect to the device.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
12 We inhabit a present transformed by artifacts exhibiting futuristic style, interpreted through elements of futurological ideology…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
13 …into a stage setting in which we enact collective fantasies of techno-progressive and even techno-transcendental agency.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
14 Of course, futurity is indeed a dimension of present time, the openness inhering in the diversity of beings sharing the now,
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
15 …but the futurological Future would foreclose this openness, fill it with dead data to sell you things and control contingency.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
16 The futurological Future forecloses the open futurity in which political freedom lives, substituting for that freedom promises…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
17 …of instrumental capacitation (enhancements, reassurances, satisfactions) and substituting for thought-in-freedom legible routines.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
18 "The Future" would foreclose futurity in much the same way Progress-qua-Destiny would foreclose progress as collective struggle.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
19 It's not just that treating Siri or Alexa as intelligent when they are not, or smart cards, cars, houses as "smart" when they are not…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
20 …is a deception peddling fraudulent devices to credulous consumers (though it is). And it's not just that an habituation to attribution…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
21 …of intelligence to non-intelligent devices evacuates that attribution of substance when its recognition in our fellow beings…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
22 …is indispensable to the recognition and protection of our dignity, integrity, and standing and so…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
23 …threatens the rights and hopes of us all (though it does) -- human, Great Ape, cetacean. But also, these little ideological dramas...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
24 …in which futurologists (and Tech-Talkers more generally) are training us to perform are also undermining the fundamental…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
25 …terms on the basis of which political life proceeds, a political life in which we experience the freedom, progress, and dignity…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
26 …without which forms of human flourishing may be entirely lost to us, in exchange for a handful of useless, polluting crap.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
27 That Americans reading these tweets happen to be entering a time of great peril in which thriving political action, criticism, struggle…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
28 …are the only hope for an open futurity not foreclosed by "The Future" of the statisticians, the salesmen, and the bomb builders…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
29 …just makes it all the more urgent that we resist the deceptive, distracting, hyperbolic, faith-based (self-)promotional-infomercial…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
30 …norms and forms of the tech-marketeers and the corporate-military think-tank "Thought Leaders" and "Designers" who…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
31 …would make bets and call it having thoughts and sell you crap and would call it making freedom.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
32 I must add, by way of conclusion, since there are now just two sides you can be on, it comes to matter more than ever that the Democrats…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
33 …that is to say, the side that must prevail if sustainable equitable diverse freedom would prevail (flaws errors notwithstanding FOCUS!)…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
34 …then we must grasp the unique danger represented by the undeniable seduction of much of the Democratic left by siren songs…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
35 …of tech-entrepreneurship (feudalism), disruption (deregulation), big-data (insensitivity), technocracy (anti-democracy).
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
36 Democrats are the last best hope in America for freedom, progress, convivial multiculture, social and environmental justice…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
37 …and so we cannot tolerate the loss of that hope to the reactionary seductions of futurology, techno-feudalism and earth-alienation.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
38 Siri, Alexa, facebook profiling algorithms, and heat-signature targeting software in drones will never be citizens, but we must be. Now.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 26, 2016
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