Authencity of all things digital
We’ve always taken technology advancements at face value as long as it helps improve our lives. I mean, how many of us really bother to gure out how our cars work? You learn how to drive it, and perhaps you’ll learn how to change a tyre, but how does it really work? How about a lm camera? Or a radio? Or a TV set?
More importantly, did it matter? Not really. Because all these “old” tech just did what they were made to do. It was up to us to use them as we see t.
Today, we have all the same things, but the answer to that question may be quite different. In our quest to improve our lives, we’ve made all our tools smarter, with ever increasing sensors. More data is collected about us everyday than we care to know about. And the software algorithms and machine learning neural networks behind it are getting eerily accurate.
What am I getting at there? Trust. We trust our tness bands to tell us we’ve walked 10,000 steps because we can’t possbily count it ourselves. We trust our car has 70km left of fuel because that’s what the counter says so we drive past the petrol station. We trust our camera display more than our eyes. And we’ve begun to trust all manner of notications and prompts from our apps because the techno-wizadry behind them must be more accurate.
Are we relying too much on our gadgets to tell us how to do even simple everyday things? Perhaps more a more frightening question; is it such a bad thing after all?
To err is human, but with tech, why err at all.