Media contributions
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Title Digital Human: Unintended Consequences Degree of recognition National Media name/outlet BBC Radio 4 Media type Radio Duration/Length/Size 30 mins Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 13/06/22 Description Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists, unquestioningly accepting the latest innovation into our lives without thinking about potential downsides.
Perhaps we could learn from a society who think much more carefully and critically about adopting new technology - the Amish. Unlike what many people believe, it's not that they reject technology outright but they make careful community based decisions about they what they permit. It's a thoughtful, democratic and yes scientific approach. They'll see how a modern innovation effects the community by allowing it to be trialled and if they don’t like what they see, they reject it,
How many of the negative unintended consequences of digital technology could have been avoided if the rest of us took a page out of their book?Producer/Author Peter McManus Persons Jane Alexander