introduction:
most #it #tech is primarily about identifying how to remove human beings from processes so the organisations which achieve these goals can more easily generate revenues from what remains: their machines. but it’s not the only way.
post:
what i love about #movie and #film #tech is its capacity to make humans bigger humans: essentially, much more human. the microphone, a bigger voice. the camera, a finer eye. even the stage, a more concise bearing of witness.
meantime, #it #tech has striven always to remove humans from the processes in question so that dominant interests may monetise more easily what remains.
take a look at this scene whose technological and emotional achievements mainly involved the simple repurposing — devised and driven i believe by the film director alfred hitchcock — of existing filmic strategies, via the combining of two separate procedures into just one flow:
a simultaneous zoom and dolly movement: which served to challenge the physical world through physical means. no animation; no cgi. something real to bear witness to something utterly real.
repurposing #tech is really what floats my boat: low risk; high value-add; countering current, usually lazy, hegemonic thinking in a sector … that is, choosing ultimately to deliver on the ancient greek version of what #innovation really should invoke: “to cut deeply into …”
that is, i am intending to mean, REAL cutting-edge thinking. as, for example, i’ve been proposing for a while re #ai here:
it’s beautiful, is this idea of repurposing. it’s beautiful because it foregrounds little details. and through their accumulation, kept over time in single planes of thought, such processes of repurposing may achieve the quantum leaps of faith i am asking us all to return to believing we human beings are fundamentally capable of; are fundamentally suited to:
our due value-add as human beings to this planet we should learn better to share with other species and with future times.
a philosophy of the best.
is all.
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