What tech calls thinking

Day 4 of the French lock-down, let's change our minds.

We had fun following the characters from the 'Silicon Valley' TV series. You may have fun too even if it isn't as hilarious with the recent book from Adrian Daub "What Tech Calls Thinking":

"This is a book about the history of ideas in a place that likes to pretend its ideas don't have any history" such as Dropping out, Genius, Communication, Disruption or even Failure.

It provides a refreshing way to look at these buzzwords while having fun with an interesting light on others such as 'reframing' or 'design thinking'.

For instance:

"Though the word is quite old, the concept of communication became compelling to philosophers and theorists only once it was both imperative that messages travel with little distortion and clear that they very rarely did. The concept designates, as Peters puts it, both a bridge and a barrier. Or, put another way, communication was often taken to be solving the problems communication had created in the first place."