In an exciting development here at Arteculate, we’ve learned that our penchant for exceptional commentary about the interaction between technology and society has not gone unnoticed — in fact, in faraway lands, others have caught the writing bug, and we wish them well. While none of our writers have made the hop-skip-and-jump to Sri Lanka (though one of our wives speaks wistfully of the tea plantations outside of Columbo), we welcome the new voices to the circuit. But gear up folks, because it’s a big tough world out there!
Not long ago, we would’ve assumed that here in the US, we were at the forefront of new technological development, testing-and-learning on ourselves and then spreading our best features to the rest of the world.
This has changed.
But what will be the effect of different cultural norms interacting with technology? We’ll explore that in later articles, with a particular focus on China, where an emphasis on the collective good rather than individual freedoms has resulted in proliferation of new technologies and different experiences.