3min chapter

This Anthro Life cover image

The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray

This Anthro Life

CHAPTER

Getting Your Socks Picked Up Everyday

Technology, in this perspective, isn't an end point, right? It's not a thing that we get it and then it's done. Every time we aim to put automation in place so that we don't have to do something as humans, we are reproducing this set of assumptions about connecting with each other. And i like your framing of soft scales for a hard world. In some ways, we've divied up the world into what's hard and what's not. That gets ered very quickly. Who thinks hard? Who does hard sciences, like all of that. I keep bringing that to the table because i think in many ways, we have not had a chance to

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode