This Message Is Imperative: Can We Get Back Building for the Better?

In two essays recently published and formed here into a podcast, Scott Graves offers perspective on how to build for the benefit of our society. In We Didn't Ask for Stupefied Star Trek he explores the perils of launching a nationwide AI technological effort that continues the predatory business models from our largest tech platforms that has arguably produced one of the more widespread detrimental results for our society and that of the planet. We didn't ask for it, we've clearly requested an alternative direction, so why can't our tech sector respond favorably to what society truly desires? In Construction Apart from Destruction Scott breaks down the meaning behind one of the most prescient quotes from writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry in order to discover the inner meaning behind the concepts that demonstrate for us why we need to get beyond our simplistic consumerism and how we may benefit from doing so. An exercise he performed recently with a group of high school students in Vermont.