>Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation. He says using technology. >Specifically the social media giants and advertisin

>Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation. He says using technology. >Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies. Im not sure about this emotional vampire factor. >They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world. Good luck fixing it though. Imagine I waved my wand and made you emperor of the world. You then instant ban and shutdown these social media entities. Their stock prices go to $0. Nobody on earth had a chance of selling. What happens? Tons of retirees just got their benefits drastically reduced. Most likely all of them are headed to the job line. Too big to fail. >For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative. Hard to prove. >What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster? Not too late, but you cant take down goliath, you have to displace it at this point. >I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions. Out of curiousity, what is your opinion of Trump?