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Humans are works of art, not machines

Humans are works of art, not machines

Let's not be in a hurry to re-make ourselves to fit the demands of engineers

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Heather Brooke
Feb 26, 2025
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One of the ironies about technology is that instead of it working to accommodate us, we humans have been persuaded to become more machine-like to better accommodate the technology.

I’m thinking about this as I sit in a transitional time. I’ve been in the Canary Islands for most of February and it’s been full of different transitions. First, there was the…

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