Tools are one of the main ways that I can expand my capabilities as an individual, thinker, and creative.
Web tech to me is everything that connects to the internet, media, data, opinions, and—very quickly—it’s reaching into our most intimate thoughts and moments.
To me the most interesting part of it is influence and education.
I think the danger is that government is designed to control and manipulate people, and they have no real chance of keeping their own values and goals without some counter tech.
AI is an example of mind control: where before people had to check various biased sources, now they are compiled into a direct answer by a large language model (LLM) that is developed to give a response based on the user’s preferences and the training models—which I suspect are manipulated.