SEEING LIKE A DATA STRUCTURE

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Technology has become entangled with the structure of society and we can no longer see the world around us without it. Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Tools are controlled by human users, whereas machines only do what their designers want. Technologists should build tools rather than machines. Seeing like a data structure is a choice and there are different paths we can take.