Serendipity Strikes: on SciFri (!) re the core of these communications ... today
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How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic
A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone with upset expressions
Credit: Zackary Drucker/Gender Spectrum Collection
The Book blurb (and how to order) provides a bit more er, granularity--also too: a word known only-to *cough* the Tech-ept
(is that recursive; get Brownie Points?) NOOO..? [you Meanies!]
Carrion. Methinks that absence-of-Empathy [the very-Core of the *DJT-Menace as it IS who-he-IS] ..just may be on the same Scale/aka, As Dire re Extinction 'prospects' as The Broiling Denouement, since:
it is a higher barrier to Learn! How to communicate-extremely-well than it is--to Use the Techno to start collecting Carbon by all means imaginable: each one of us here could spawn n-cockamamie+brilliant approaches to that, in 5 min.
(Drew might well have the best chances amongst us?) of emulating the style of Interviewer in Mike's link to full-screen Idiocyinaction, I wot. But wtf do I know-ferShure..
* PS: al-punte LeeringRPD chimes in: 'ow do you know 'e's a king? Love. It.
How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic
A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone with upset expressions
Credit: Zackary Drucker/Gender Spectrum Collection
Much of technology was built on the promise of connecting people across the world, fostering a sense of community. But as much as technology gives us, it also may be taking away one of the things that makes us most human—empathy. When we hunker down in front of screens and behind usernames we reduce our capacity to understand someone else’s perspective.
Journalist Kaitlin Ugolick Phillips, author of the new book The Future of Feeling, joins Ira to talk about whether technology has doomed us to live in a society without empathy, or whether it can actually help fix the problem it creates.
Plus, is it ever really possible to “walk in someone else’s shoes?” Courtney Cogburn, an associate professor of social work at Columbia University, is working to find that out. She joins Ira to talk about a VR experiment designed to help you feel what it’s like to live the life of someone else.
Read an excerpt from Phillips’ new book, The Future Of Feeling.
The Book blurb (and how to order) provides a bit more er, granularity--also too: a word known only-to *cough* the Tech-ept
(is that recursive; get Brownie Points?) NOOO..? [you Meanies!]
Carrion. Methinks that absence-of-Empathy [the very-Core of the *DJT-Menace as it IS who-he-IS] ..just may be on the same Scale/aka, As Dire re Extinction 'prospects' as The Broiling Denouement, since:
it is a higher barrier to Learn! How to communicate-extremely-well than it is--to Use the Techno to start collecting Carbon by all means imaginable: each one of us here could spawn n-cockamamie+brilliant approaches to that, in 5 min.
(Drew might well have the best chances amongst us?) of emulating the style of Interviewer in Mike's link to full-screen Idiocyinaction, I wot. But wtf do I know-ferShure..
* PS: al-punte LeeringRPD chimes in: 'ow do you know 'e's a king? Love. It.
