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It's not inevitable unless people believe it. Seriously I don't know when people collectively lost the will to actually trying and dictate the rules of our soci

• zaptheimpaler 9y ago
  Agreed. I think its because since the scientific revolution we got the idea that science/technological progress will gradually cure all of humanities problems. Its accepted as fact by many that capitalism + science will solve every problem under the sun without any intervention on our part.. even though its obvious the market does not always serve society, and that many societal problems are far outside the realms of markets.
• jonknee 9y ago
  When has legislation worked to prevent technology? Just look at North Korea and see how well that's working.
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  • SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
    Just because you can't dam a river doesn't mean you can't divert it. More explicitly: there are many cases of regulation shaping the course that technology takes. It's a strawman (of the variety people are trying to call out here) to say that we're either helpless in the face of technology or we must halt its progress. There's a huge middle ground of regulating and guiding the process.