I didn't actually expect people to go 'yay' or 'boo' at any statement in particular. The point is that there are value judgements associated with each one - tr

I didn't actually expect people to go 'yay' or 'boo' at any statement in particular. The point is that there are value judgements associated with each one - trade offs. They are not neutral. I have to disagree with you about the fault being not in our technology. I'd say the faults are in both. The technology is an embodiment of our flawed judgement, but is real nonetheless. We make choices about what technology to create, but once we have created it we have to live in the new environment we have made. Technology reifies our ideas. That environment affects us. Some environments bring out more positive traits in us, and some bring out more negative ones. We do have the capacity to design for the positive. I agree that we can imagine a potentially positive use for almost anything. But we can equally well imagine a world with unicorns and fairies. What matters is the effects technologies actually have in the real world. Our technology can never be separated from ourselves.