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Digital technologies have the potential to improve human experience and solve the complex problems we are facing in the 21st Century.
Digital technologies have the potential to improve human experience and solve the complex problems we are facing in the 21st Century, but at the same time they also have the capacity to threaten human existence and destroy the planet. However, by placing people, humanity, and the planet at the centre of our digital transformation, we can use new and emerging technologies as tools to create a better world in which we can become both more digital and more human.
This session focuses on the human dimension of technology and is a reminder that in our rapidly transforming world we need to place people, humanity, and the planet at the centre of everything we do. Technology, as a human creation, is a human tool and not an end itself. However, we don’t only shape the technology we use, we are also shaped by it. Although technology has the potential to improve human experience and solve complex social-technical and environmental problems, it also has the capacity to create more problems and even threaten human existence altogether.
The Digital Transformation courses at Media Design School place the emphasis on how new and emerging technologies can be used to solve real-world problems for organisations, people, society, humanity and the planet, rather than on the technologies themselves – although these are obviously important too. The courses also explore the way in which we are shaped by the technologies we use, as well as the ethical, cultural, and societal implications. In Aotearoa New Zealand, this includes the implications for Māori and Pasifika communities, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Mātauranga Māori. The rapid and ubiquitous rise of Artificial Intelligence, and the competing utopian and dystopian narratives, provides a good illustration of both the potential benefit and harm that result from disruptive technologies. However, by taking a human/humanity-centred approach, we have the potential to become both more digital and more human.
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