Tea and Tech Season 5 ~Episode 5

When a technology becomes too big, too complex, or too fast for society to fully process… we simplify it.

And the easiest way to simplify something complex… is to give it a face.  We’ve done this before as a society …. With nuclear science. With the early internet. With social media…. the list is long

One person becomes the shorthand for an entire system.

Not because they control everything — but because our brains prefer stories over systems...and let’s be honest - It’s easier to understand a person… than it is to understand a global infrastructure.

But … here’s the catch. 

When we reduce systems to individual people… we start misplacing responsibility.