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If the current technology services are like cigarettes, then the solution is to solve the disease and addiction problems, so people can smoke in a safe way. Tha
by staunch 9y ago
If the current technology services are like cigarettes, then the solution is to solve the disease and addiction problems, so people can smoke in a safe way. That's kind of what vaporizer technology is attempting.
Facebook and Google are built on old technology, and it's technology that we now know to have fundamental flaws.
The answer to out-dated bad technology is next-generation good technology. Technology is supposed to work for us, and to the extent it doesn't, that's a bug to be resolved.
No amount of warnings or education is going to solve the problem. No panicked response is necessary. If you want to fix the problem, just create, fund, and promote the new and improved technology.
- confounded 9y ago> No amount of warnings or education is going to solve the problem The most effective solutions (the closest we've got to "solving the problem") to habitual cigarette smoking so far seem to be regulation; increasing prices, making things socially arduous. > The answer to out-dated bad technology is next-generation good technology. The problem is not technology, and neither is the solution. There's nothing that technologically innovative about aggregating and re-ordering images/hyperlinks via a PHP app. The problem is one of power, control, informed-consent, and incentives.
- staunch 9y agoIf the problem isn't modern technology such as Facebook and smartphones, then why didn't we have this problem in the past? And if it is modern technology, then why couldn't it be the solution? As one example, why can't we create a social network that's designed to help users mitigate the negative aspects of using it?
- confounded 9y agoWhat about Facebook is modern technology?
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