52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing
(8) Science and technology are increasingly used to manipulate and exploit, not serve.
People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.
People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.
- Software upgrades are so bad that users actually fear them.
- Search engines get worse every year.
- Social media becomes more psychologically manipulative and destructive.
- Active campaigns to limit
Ted Gioia • Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It's forcing the human race into what evolutionary... See more
Bullshit ahead
We were warned about this. We were warned about the dangers of too much complexity, but we didn’t care. Now, rather than understanding how the thing works and what to do to fix it, we basically cross our fingers anytime we boot up our computer or open an app. These criticisms aren’t original to me, I am just a messenger.