The Discernable Interviews
Tom Goodwin: We Are Addicted to New Technology
1hr 11min
21 June 2022
Why are humans so addicted to new technology? We race to embrace that latest technological development even when it makes a task more difficult. We ignore the inefficiency we just created whilst marvelling at our engineering prowess!
Tom Goodwin points out and corrects these errors in judgement in his work as a consultant, speaker, author and presenter to organisations where the C Suite are at risk of burning resources on adolescent implementations of technology. In a way it’s understandable because being more outlandish is the only way futurists and technologists gain enough attention and they have captured boardrooms of companies everywhere.
Tom has a foundational belief of ‘human first’ and in this discussion we explored:
- The attraction of technological hyperbole
- Media is geared for attention seeking and outrage
- Commonwealth countries resist following the USA into divisive politics
- The road-centric society
- When a technology succeeds too rapidly
- Techno geeks and their brains that took over the world
- Building empathy into technology
- Restaurants that ruin themselves with technology
- Covid-19 excuses in call centres
- Are cryptocurrencies just technological indulgences?
- Elon Musk’s enormous ego and dedication to free speech
- Twitter is not a traditional ‘public square’
- The New Normal
- The pandemic lasted for different lengths of time for different people
- Questioning reality – are we all just Sims?
- The importance of working in an office (not from home)
Fashionable ‘tolerance’ - Beauty, difference and class structures
