Besides the fact that we’ve now passed the point beyond which technology is no longer helping us speed up, but also slows us down because we’ve become enslaved to it, everybody and their brother and sister are falling for scams these days.
Here’s another example.
I have a good example of of how technology is now starting to slow us down. In the past, people applied for jobs that they wanted and to companies where they wanted to work and that was that.
Because it’s mostly done through giant websites now, people are told, obliged or enticed to apply to many different firms and for many different jobs. Now we need technology – algorithms – to help us deal with the flood of applications. As those algorithms are problematic too, we now also need to learn to deal with those.
In the video below, you can learn how a smart woman with a PhD got tricked into losing 150,000 dollars.
But there is something fun to report too:
