last highlighted date: 2023-10-08

Highlights

  • Too often, technologists’ visions of a better future miss kindness outright. Instead, they prioritize values like convenience, efficiency, or novelty.
  • Other examples of using technology to promote kindness include: • Quora’s implementation of a “Thanks” button for when someone answers your question.
    • Note: how tech promote kindness
  • Facebook’s Memorialized Accounts for loved ones who have passed away (shown below) [3-17].
  • Some of the top five regrets of the dying include: • I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.I wish that I had let myself be happier [3-19].