Wong Kar Wai :
Technology is just a tool. AI can replicate, but can it yearn? Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people who can’t express their feelings? Can code capture the way memory distorts and reshapes our past? These are the questions that interest me, and I don’t think machines have the answers yet.
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I Remember Everyone Who Left
Dr. Steven Zucker:
and the center of the painting is illuminated as if by a street light that looks in Picasso’s handling like a human eye, but also as an explosion, but also with an incandescent light bulb at its center. Art historians have read this a number of different ways. It has been read as the flash of a bomb, but it’s also been read as the price of modernity. That is, we often think of modernization, of the advance of science and technology as a human good, as something that raises our standard of living. But technology has also, in this case, afforded us weapons that create human misery. And I think here Picasso is signaling this malevolent aspect of technology.
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That Day I Looked Up
Eileen Ahn:
This was the very first time I had an electronic device of my own. Listening to the same 100 songs in the corner of my room or the backseat of the car made me feel like I was in my own secret hideout.
I was the only one in the room without a MacBook. The guy sitting in front of me slid his finger on the keyboard from the letter “a” all the way to “l” to unlock his laptop on the flat Apple keyboard. I still remember the shock I felt from witnessing such a novel way of setting a password.
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