"We often talk about the risks technology poses to children. The Senate recently held a hearing about it. But we do not often talk about the risks technology poses to the elderly." Fantastic, thought-provoking, deeply personal piece by @omericandream.bsky.social #technology #surveillance #ethics

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The ability to make bad decisions is common to us all: it is only in the elderly that we perceive it as incompetence.

We tend to overlook the agency of older people. And when someone is under our care, we value their safety at the expense of their autonomy. It is as if the time we spend caring for them adds responsibility for and removes humanity from them.

Omer Rosen, My Father, the Cyborg | The ability to make bad decisions is common to us all: it is only in the elderly that we perceive it as incompetence.

"I brought technology into my father’s life to improve his health, but it soon became a lever of control." Omer Rosen on the seductions of medical surveillance: