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I think technology is all about giving us more degrees of freedom. For a familiar example, video games can provide vastly more experiences as processing power m
by gallerdude 8y ago
I think technology is all about giving us more degrees of freedom. For a familiar example, video games can provide vastly more experiences as processing power marches on. But this is far from limited to computer-adjacent things.
Facebook gives a lot more degrees of freedom in relationships with other people, YouTube and blogs and reddit give content creators the most meritocratic markets to have ever existed, the camera on your phone is better and more portable than 99% of old cameras.
- Emma_Goldman 8y agoYou are confusing 'freedom' and 'power'. On the most popular analysis, to be free is to be deprived of a personal power which one has, e.g. for some force to interfere and stop you from exercising your capacity for speech. We cannot have been unfree to use facebook before the invention of facebook because we never had that power, and because it is not a personal power, but an instrumental power outside of our person.