Much of this code performs support functions peripheral to the actual imaging, but some of it makes explicit the nonlinear summing-up of photons into color components that used to be physically computed by the film emulsion. The camera in your phone is indeed powered by software, amounting at a minimum to millions of lines of code ( Information is Beautiful 2017). However, Zylinska and Kember ( 2012) point out,īe this as it may, for today’s cameras, this is no longer a metaphor. It is clear that, as individuals and as a society, we do not always make good choices so far we have muddled through, with plenty of (hopefully instructive, so far survivable) missteps along the way. Sherry Turkle ( 2011) has written convincingly about the subtler, but in their way equally disturbing failures of empathy, self-control and communication that can arise when we project emotion onto machines that have none, or use our technology to mediate our interpersonal relationships to the exclusion of direct human contact.
Many of us working actively on machine intelligence are, for example, co-signatories of an open letter calling for a worldwide ban on autonomous machine intelligence-enabled weapons systems ( Future of Life Institute 2015), which do pose very real dangers.
As Zylinska and her coauthor Sarah Kember elaborate in their book Life after New Media (2012), one should not conclude that anything goes, that the direction of our development is predetermined, or that technology is somehow inherently utopian.
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