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I have been meaning to share this video\/presentation by\u00a0Patrick Scannell for quite some time now. Pat Scannell<\/a> is a technology and telecom industry consultant who is a world leader on 5G and the co-evolution of technology and cognition, specializing in innovation and commercialization of emerging technologies across a wide range of industries.<\/p>\n

At the IEEE International Symposium on Digital Privacy and Social Media 2022<\/a>, Pat gave a talk titled ‘The Return of Magic: Technological Complexification’. The outline<\/a> of the talk says:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s tech is characterized by rapidly accelerating complexity, both in the densely layered technology itself but also in the increasingly hyper-specialized people who are needed to build it. But each person who builds it, and certainly most people who use tech, have a diminishing ability to understand how the whole of the techno-ecological niche we have created for ourselves (what I term \u2018the return of magic\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

The case for this argument is outlined and then shows that the problems associated with this phenomenon are amplified by an inherent characteristic of a complex system – the lack of ability to know, understand, and predict system outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Against the broad scope of human history, the result of these forces could represent a reversal of a trend that started in the Enlightenment, but it also has very specific and actionable consequences on the day-to-day work of the tech industry and on Digital Privacy of our customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This talk aims to frame the problems, but in a constructive way that allows us to begin to build and adopt better technology, which could scaffold a better human experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

The talk is embedded below, thanks to IEEE TV:<\/p>\n