Communication Across Worldviews With Sociotechnical Systems
Jan 22, 2024
AI
Society
User Interface
Technology
To make a decision that can intentionally and effectively impact the world around us requires understanding the complexity of this world from multiple perspectives or worldviews. This idea that we can function better as a society with diversity of worldviews is called pluralism, an idea that I believe is a necessary fundamental property of a society ready to take on current and future challenges. While the idea is simple, having a diversity of worldviews in and of itself does not mean a group has the ability to make decisions intentionally and effectively and can result in conflict with the potential to degrade the ability of the group to make decisions at all.