Unpacking the Stories We Tell About Technology

Technology doesn’t arise from thin air“Sometimes we tell stories about technology that say, ‘Look, we’ve just solved this marvelous new problem. There’s something about stabilizing our histories as the predictor of our future behavior that is actually really troubling…. “When I say, ‘Could you be more transparent or more explicable?’ is what I’m actually saying, ‘Tell me what your motive is here? “Sometimes a request for transparency or explicability is really less about, ‘tell me the tool,’ but [rather] ‘tell me the intent.’ I want to know what you’re doing with it…. I don’t actually think they’re asking to have the math explained to them, either….