Journal 2 2023/02/219( future of work)
TED TALK
How to be “Team Human” in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff
Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff – in a world dominated by digital technology, we’re now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. “Join ‘Team Human.’ Find the others,” he says. “Together let’s make the future that we always wanted.”
There are a few points that touched me very much. At first, he mentioned core movement, we want kids to get jobs in the digital future, even they are still very young, parents push them receive code education. However education is not about getting jobs, in the past, education was compensation for job well done. But now, we make it an extension of the job and declines the cost of work training.
The second one is, human beings are the problem and technology is the solution. It seems our world developed fast and technology improves our life and provides more convenience. The fact is human are no longer valued for our creativity. Now we are just valued for our date, then they can use the date to make predictions.
How ridiculous it is, the technology was originally human-oriented, but now it has developed into human beings as appendants. We have to stop using technology to optimize human beings for the market and start optimizing technology for the human future. I can’t imagine life without technology, but I can’t imagine the future is all built with technology. Human wisdom and civilization should reflect more in the intrinsic emotional value. I always believe in the value of art creators, because there are emotions and uncertainties, which make our lives more layered. If they can be programmed, the meaning of human existence will no longer exist.
By the way. I love this comment below the video.
‘It does make sense now. I mean, humans are special in their own way and we can’t compare it to technology like robot. we actually can’t say that robot is better than human since human created the robot, right? This world needs a lot of people like him, who is brave to voice his opinion. Thanks for the talk! Really learned a lot and so far the best ted talk I’ve ever watched.’
This also reminds me of human beings’ value. Human values are the virtues that guide us to take into account the human element when we interact with other human beings. Human values are, for example, respect, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, listening, openness, affection, empathy and love towards other human beings. Maybe these are also can bethe directions of future technological development. But can not replace human beings’value.