4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Belarusian-American technology critic who challenged the techno-optimist narrative about the internet and democracy — and coined the term 'solutionism' for technology's inappropriate application to political problems.
American writer whose essay 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' (2008) launched a major cultural debate about the internet's effect on cognition and deep reading.
Jeff Orlowski's 2020 Netflix documentary featuring tech insiders (many affiliated with the Center for Humane Technology) warning about the psychological and democratic harms of social media platforms' attention-optimizing algorithms.
Ivan Illich's 1973 argument that industrial tools have passed a 'second threshold' where they become counterproductive — the car creates more traffic than it solves; medicine creates iatrogenesis; schools inhibit learning — and that convivial tools that enhance personal autonomy must replace them.