Every one of the recommendations is as relevant and pressing today as in 1973. How is it that we like to claim computer technology is a "fast moving" subject w

Every one of the recommendations is as relevant and pressing today as in 1973. How is it that we like to claim computer technology is a "fast moving" subject while vital areas remain stagnant for half a century? A few explanations come to mind: Maybe institutional structures of avoidance, wilful ignorance, minimisation and denial are so much more powerful than individual intelligence. Maybe we don't really know what it _is_ that moves fast, and computer science is still woefully immature. We still haven't figured out what it is we are creating or want to create. Maybe some of the dangerous relations between humans and technology are innate and intractable. Perhaps they are even beyond our reason or capacity to solve. Maybe nobody is paying any attention. Whatever is happening there's a Casandra Principle in effect, in which prescient thinkers are doomed to repeatedly raise the same accurate concerns without heed.