10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
# Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Author: Jonathan Haidt
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Publication Date: 11 Apr 2022
- There is a direction to history and it is toward cooperation at larger scales. We see this trend in biological evolution, in the s
... See moreClick by click, Tac by tac we built momentum — not through wisdom or restraint, but through leveraged illusions: compounding debt, exponential extraction, artificial intelligence outpacing human ethics, social media-fed polarization, and escalating global conflict. It wasn’t progress — it was pressure. And just like the roller coaster, there comes ... See more
We’ve Reached a Tipping Point. It’s Now a Mathematical Certainty.
Long before AI, philosopher Martin Heidegger anticipated this transformation.
In The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger warned that technology is not just a collection of tools, but a way of seeing the world, a revealing that both illuminates and conceals. Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) describes technology’s insidious power to fra... See more
In The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger warned that technology is not just a collection of tools, but a way of seeing the world, a revealing that both illuminates and conceals. Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) describes technology’s insidious power to fra... See more
The truth is that technology will progress against all odds. But not every country will welcome it as an opportunity for further economic development. For a long time, we’ve had good reasons to be worried about Europe. But there are now reasons to question whether the US, too, will make the most of the current transition. Now it’s the entire Wester
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