{"id":2854,"date":"2014-02-27T03:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2014-02-27T03:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T03:03:36","slug":"broapp-and-the-automation-of-social-grooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/broapp-and-the-automation-of-social-grooming\/","title":{"rendered":"BroApp and the automation of social grooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Slightly facile but interesting. -egg]<\/p>\n<p>While I am far from a Luddite who fetishizes a life without tech, we need to consider the consequences of this latest batch of apps and tools that remind us to contact significant others, boost our willpower, provide us with moral guidance, and encourage us to be civil. Taken together, we\u2019re observing the emergence of tech that doesn\u2019t just augment our intellect and lives \u2014 but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s take a concrete example. Instead of doing the professorial pontification thing we tech philosophers are sometimes wont to do, I talked to the makers of BroApp, a \u201cclever relationship wingman\u201d their words that sends \u201cautomated daily text messages\u201d to your significant other. It offers the promise of \u201cmaximizing\u201d romantic connection through \u201cseamless relationship outsourcing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2014\/02\/outsourcing-humanity-apps\/\">Today&#8217;s Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Slightly facile but interesting. -egg] While I am far from a Luddite who fetishizes a life without tech, we need to consider the consequences of this latest batch of apps and tools that remind us to contact significant others, boost our willpower, provide us with moral guidance, and encourage us to be civil. Taken together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-K2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}