“The proliferation of devices surrounding us at all times may help us “get in touch” with other people, sure, but they impede our ability to get in touch with ourselves. A “touch” screen would indeed seem to promise something tactile and real, but they leave us cold, tepid, and listless. Something is deeply wrong when we sext the same way we order

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(8) Science and technology are increasingly used to manipulate and exploit, not serve.

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 smartph

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If we continue to pretend that human nature is an unknowable x, then we will continue to build technology for an unknowable creature and be surprised when we find misery in our midst. We will build things like the $12 billion porn industry—now fueled almost entirely by technology—without asking the most basic questions about what that industry is d... See more