Technology

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no . We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on our phone at the bus stop. We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new ... See more

There are only three sources of growth: population growth, natural resource utilization, and technology.

Developed societies are depopulating all over the world, across cultures – the total human population may already be shrinking.

Natural resource utilization has sharp limits, both real and political.

And so the only perpetual source of growth is te... See more

Our civilization was built on technology.

Our civilization is built on technology.

Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.

For hundreds of years, we properly glorified this – until recently.

I am here to bring the good news.

We can advance to a far superior way of living... See more

our concepts and language cannot keep pace with our technology, by which I do not just mean gadgets and gizmos with helpfully flashing lights, but the economically and culturally hegemonic forces shaping the world in the context of the current mutation of the complex adaptive system that is capitalism through what Shoshanna Zuboff calls Surveillanc... See more

technology can be seen as synonymous with capitalism, in the sense that technological innovation drives the investment-debt-growth cycle that defines the economy while simultaneously shaping language, culture, and social expectations in a way that obscures what it is doing to us - namely turning us into compliant consumers and removing our capacity... See more