Something is wrong with computers

3 · Tom MacWright · Nov. 15, 2019, 10:16 p.m.
Summary
The world is changing faster than ever before, with the data we collect growing by the day and technology developing at a breakneck pace. That’s the sort of boilerplate introduction that props us countless content farm articles and CEO-thought leader LinkedIn posts. Besides the inexorable and terrifying advance of climate change, there’s a lot to doubt in that kind of futurism. In particular, computers. Hardware. Ignorant of their teleological duty to constantly improve, the computers that we in...