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Technopoly by Neil Postman Industrial society and it's future by Theodore Kaczynski Both these books drastically changed my perception of technology. The role
by oldsklgdfth 6y ago
Technopoly by Neil Postman
Industrial society and it's future by Theodore Kaczynski
Both these books drastically changed my perception of technology. The role we think it has and the effects and consequences it does have.
The main take away is that a technology contains an implicit bias that is absorbed by the user. More plainly put "to someone with a hammer, everything is a nail" applies to all technology.
- daniel-thompson 6y agoFor those who don't know, Theodore Kaczynski is the Unabomber. He killed 3 people and injured 23 others with a mail-bombing campaign. Ideas are ideas, but maybe take with a grain of salt anything said by a guy who advocates for his beliefs using physical violence.
- oldsklgdfth 6y agoAlways take information with a grain of salt. Kaczynski was not all there and is a murderer. The first half of the manifesto is a fairly piercing critique of industrial society. Most of the ideas are not really original. Interesting questions are raised, the call to violence is nonsense.
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- walleeee 6y ago> The main take away is that a technology contains an implicit bias that is absorbed by the user. More plainly put "to someone with a hammer, everything is a nail" applies to all technology. McLuhan's Understanding Media posits something similar about forms of communication.