"Using technology to become almost superhuman" — The new digital divide. #shorts

less than 1m read

·Nov 3, 2024

Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

We're living in an age where technology is becoming so incredibly powerful that it's not just like having a slightly better car or a slightly nicer house. These days, the divide is between people who are using technology to become almost superhuman.

Think about someone who has mastered how to use a computer, who can connect to anyone in the world, can access any piece of knowledge they want, has taken dozens of online courses on any topic you can imagine. The divide between that group and everyone else who doesn't have those advantages just gets wider and wider.

The average person with a personal computer connected to the internet has resources, informational resources, that the president of the United States did not have even just 20 or 30 years ago. And they're using those resources; they're using them to become even better, even faster, even richer.

I think that's the main reason the divide is getting worse: it's simply the compounding advantages on this side of the divide that aren't available to everyone else.

Logarithmic functions differentiation | Advanced derivatives | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy

How Facial Expressions Help Robots Communicate with Us | Nat Geo Explores

View All

The Dark Side of OnlyFans

With the cost of living soaring, an economic crisis, and wages that can’t be stretched far enough to provide an enjoyable life, people are worried about their finances now more than ever. The sad truth is that skimping and saving can only take you so far.…

Composing 3x3 matrices | Matrices | Precalculus | Khan Academy

So, we have two three by three matrices here: matrix A and matrix B. We could, of course, view each of them as a transformation in three-dimensional space. Now, what we’re going to think about in this video is the composition of A and B. So, you could th…

Variance and standard deviation of a discrete random variable | AP Statistics | Khan Academy

In a previous video, we defined this random variable (X). It’s a discrete random variable; it can only take on a finite number of values. I defined it as the number of workouts I might do in a week. We calculated the expected value of our random variable …

CGP Grey was WRONG

As Mark Twain once quipped, “If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.” There’s a pair of videos on my channel that were in the works for over a year. The Tekoi Videos. One exploration and one explanation. And while the exploration video …

Impact of the Crusades

We’ve already had several videos where we give an overview of the Crusades. Just as a review, they happen over roughly 200 years during the High Middle Ages. The First Crusade, at the very end of the 11th century, was actually the most successful of the C…

Setting up a system of equations from context example

In this video, we’re going to get some more practice setting up systems of equations, not solving them, but just setting them up. So we’re told Sanjay’s dog weighs 5 times as much as his cat. His dog is also 20 kilograms heavier than his cat. Let c be the…

"Using technology to become almost superhuman" — The new digital divide. #shorts

More Articles