{"id":104324,"date":"2017-06-29T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdtestpress.online\/?guid=52b35dbfbfbbbe7d91ae4bcddb4c32b4"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:34:59","slug":"a-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education-the-power-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/2017\/06\/a-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education-the-power-of-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein f\u00fchrender Ingenieur aus dem Silicon Valley erkl\u00e4rt, warum jeder Techniker eine geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung braucht (die Macht der Philosophie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posthaven-post-body\">\n<div>\u201cIt worries me that so many of the builders of technology today are people who haven\u2019t spent time thinking about these larger questions.\u201d Ruefully\u2014and with some embarrassment at my younger self\u2019s condescending attitude toward the humanities\u2014I now wish that I had strived for a proper liberal arts education. That I\u2019d learned how to think critically about the world we live in and how to engage with it. That I\u2019d absorbed lessons about how to identify and interrogate privilege, power structures, structural inequality, and injustice. That I\u2019d had opportunities to debate my peers and develop informed opinions on philosophy and morality. And even more than all of that, I wish I\u2019d even realized that these were worthwhile thoughts to fill my mind with\u2014that all of my engineering work would be contextualized by such subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1016900\/tracy-chou-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1016900\/tracy-chou-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education\/<\/a><br \/>via Instapaper<\/div>\n<div>\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"posthaven-gallery\" id=\"posthaven_gallery[1177958]\">\n<p class=\"posthaven-file posthaven-file-image posthaven-file-state-processed\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"posthaven-gallery-image\" src=\"https:\/\/phaven-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/files\/image_part\/asset\/1899951\/DT-HRWr1V26Xuc1hC7JKy1HGshM\/medium_image1.JPG\" \/>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\"Es beunruhigt mich, dass so viele der Erbauer der heutigen Technologie Leute sind, die keine Zeit damit verbracht haben, \u00fcber diese gr\u00f6\u00dferen Fragen nachzudenken.\" Reum\u00fctig - und mit einer gewissen Verlegenheit \u00fcber die herablassende Haltung meines j\u00fcngeren Ichs gegen\u00fcber den Geisteswissenschaften - w\u00fcnsche ich mir jetzt, dass ich mich um eine richtige geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung bem\u00fcht h\u00e4tte. Dass ich gelernt h\u00e4tte, kritisch \u00fcber die Welt, in der wir leben, nachzudenken und mich mit ihr auseinanderzusetzen. Dass ich gelernt h\u00e4tte, wie man Privilegien, Machtstrukturen, strukturelle Ungleichheit und Ungerechtigkeit erkennt und hinterfragt. Dass ich die M\u00f6glichkeit hatte, mit Gleichaltrigen zu diskutieren und mir eine fundierte Meinung \u00fcber Philosophie und Moral zu bilden. Und noch mehr als all das w\u00fcnschte ich mir, dass ich \u00fcberhaupt erkannt h\u00e4tte, dass es sich lohnt, sich mit diesen Gedanken zu besch\u00e4ftigen - dass meine gesamte Arbeit als Ingenieurin durch solche Themen kontextualisiert werden w\u00fcrde.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ein f\u00fchrender Ingenieur aus dem Silicon Valley erkl\u00e4rt, warum jeder Techniker eine geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung braucht<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1016900\/tracy-chou-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1016900\/tracy-chou-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education\/<\/a><br \/>\u00fcber Instapaper<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/phaven-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/files\/image_part\/asset\/1899951\/DT-HRWr1V26Xuc1hC7JKy1HGshM\/medium_image1.JPG\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":104190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-ethics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}