An impressive passage that I read today.
For all the times we’ve heard “it’s not technology that’s bad, it’s just how we use it,” we’ve been proven wrong. The current medium of computer software engenders the message that we can be lazy. We don’t have to remember names or numbers or spellings anymore. We don’t have to observe, question, or think anymore. We can just search and browse and copy and paste. We don’t have to face problems; we can close and delete and filter them. Patience has been made obsolete. Wisdom has been externalized to the extent that we’ve gone bankrupt internally.
The software that I’m posting on this page is different. It exists to enrich the creative commons. It seeks to elevate rationality with social-environmental responsibility. Ultimately, it aims to increase the level of cognition and compassion in humans—not computers.