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Tea and Tech Season 5 ~Episode 5
When a technology becomes too big, too complex, or too fast for society to fully process… we simplify it.
And the easiest way to simplify something complex… is to give it a face. We’ve done this before as a society …. With nuclear science.
With the early internet. With social media…. the list is long
One person becomes the shorthand for an entire system.
Not because they control everything — but because our brains prefer stories over systems...and let’s be honest - It’s easier to understand a person… than it is to understand a global infrastructure.
But … here’s the catch.
When we reduce systems to individual people… we start misplacing responsibility.
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When a technology becomes too big, too complex, or too fast for society to fully process… we simplify it.
And the easiest way to simplify something complex… is to give it a face. We’ve done this before as a society …. With nuclear science.
With the early internet. With social media…. the list is long
One person becomes the shorthand for an entire system.
Not because they control everything — but because our brains prefer stories over systems...and let’s be honest - It’s easier to understand a person… than it is to understand a global infrastructure.
But … here’s the catch.
When we reduce systems to individual people… we start misplacing responsibility.