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You have two options 1) Either technology is truly revolutionary, which means that it has a revolutionary change on society by producing an entirely different
by thevardanian 10y ago
You have two options
1) Either technology is truly revolutionary, which means that it has a revolutionary change on society by producing an entirely different dimension of techniques and ideas that make everything in the past irrelevant.
or
2) The technology is incremental and will only make tasks more efficient, and only has a marginal change on society by producing newer linear techniques.
If it's (1) then in the long term there is definitely a huge benefit, but in the short term there's bound to be a great social upheaval. Ones that change the shape of governments, and throw society in chaos. Just look at the industrial revolution, or agriculture.If it's (2) then really it's merely a gradual process that almost goes unnoticed, save for in retrospect. Which makes it very straightforward to change and redirect people through education.
So pick either case. You can't have both revolutionary technology, and gradual social change. Either the tech is truly revolutionary which in that case will result in social revolution, or it's incremental and will result in merely incremental changes.
- aninhumer 10y agoWell sure, if you define "revolutionary technology" as something that causes a social revolution, then something has to be both or neither, but that's a tautology. And besides, no one was arguing that the technology was "truly revolutionary", so I'm not sure what point you're making?