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You mentioned cars, which is good comparison. Obviously, cars are essential. But here is short a list of completely unnecessary issues brought on by greed and
by ArtDev 7y ago
You mentioned cars, which is good comparison.
Obviously, cars are essential. But here is short a list of completely unnecessary issues brought on by greed and industry:
* The health and societal cost of leaded gasoline and the industry resistance to transitioning to unleaded.
* The Automobile industry purchase and subsequent removal of train and light rail tracks in the United States.
* The Automobile industry resistance to requiring airbags.
* The oil industry and it's war against global warming science.
There are many more, these are just the ones off the top of my head.
Point is, it isn't the technology but the industry around the technology that is the issue. Cars are useful and essential just like the internet. But right now, we have a situation akin to the early automobile industry.
I hope that, with this technology, we can get some privacy laws/worker rights/better standards before we have another half-century before anything gets done about the Big Bad Corporate takeover of the Internet.
- reyqn 7y agoHe mentioned car, which is an awful comparison. Cars should never have been invented and they are the worst thing that happened to humanity. Just imagine how much money has been wasted into cars, and roads, when any other mean of transportation would have been more efficient.
- oblio 7y agoJust imagine how much personal freedom cars have brought, especially to disenfranchised groups. There's two sides to every coin and some sides have a lot deeper grooves than what can be seen at first glance.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoDisenfranchised groups who nevertheless could afford to buy and maintain cars? I wouldn't say cars have no positive aspects, but they have been heavily marketed on the idea that they give you freedom (few car ads will show a traffic jam, it's always a gloriously open road...), but their cost, in terms of pollution, urban sprawl, and injuries is quite high.
- reyqn 7y agoI wouldn't know, I don't own a car because I don't need one. If it's possible to live without a car in a society where cars are everywhere, it's highly probable that if cars were never a thing, the infrastructure would allow you to have the same amount of personal freedom, without the downsides of cars.
- spc476 7y agoBut what do we do with all this horseshit? https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...