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In reality humans have a complicated relationship with technology. As much as it promises to save the world, technology is also what is increasingly over the la
by tigerBL00D 5y ago
In reality humans have a complicated relationship with technology. As much as it promises to save the world, technology is also what is increasingly over the last couple centuries threatening to destroy the world and our species. So technology may be saving the world, but largely from itself.
- WalterBright 5y agoDo you want a nasty, brutish, and short life living in cave instead? Because everything better than that came from technology. And even stone age man had sufficient technology to extinctify other species.
- handrous 5y agoYou've at least twice on this story borrowed from Hobbes to dismiss posts expressing what amounts to, "maybe our relationship with technology is a bit complex, and a mixed bag, and worth some examination and consideration", as if you were responding to posts advocating full-on anarcho-primitivism. Why?
- WalterBright 5y agoTechnology enabling unsustainable practices goes all the way back to the bow and arrow. Not just the last couple centuries.
- handrous 5y agoAh—you object to framing it as a new problem, then? That makes sense.