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Technology doesn't hijack our minds, people do. It's an age old practice of blaming the tools. The logical next step might be to ask well then how do we fix pe
by have_faith 10y ago
Technology doesn't hijack our minds, people do. It's an age old practice of blaming the tools.
The logical next step might be to ask well then how do we fix people? (aka, society). Maximum freedom in society means maximum freedom to be manipulated by others.
Perhaps ironically, the closer we get to solving world hunger and eradicating diseases and so on the closer we become to overpopulation and overcrowding our little planet that once seemed so large. Our ineptitude at cooperating with each other and our ability to manipulate each other so easily is probably the only thing stopping highly accelerated human progress, and thus our own demise.
Absurdism looks more appealing every day.
- emodendroket 10y agoDid you read the article? The whole point is that there is a design intended to encourage "people" to act in ways they didn't really intend.
- have_faith 10y agoI read the article. The first line of my reply was in response to the title, the rest was in response to the rest of the article. Did you read my post?
- frogpelt 10y agoI have an overarching theory about people: their solutions create problems. e.g., According to some, Norman Borlaug saved a billion lives by developing semi-dwarf wheat. But according to some, semi-dwarf wheat is killing our guts and making us generally unhealthy.