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If you ask me, technology was always boring and sucked and was a bland expression of utilitarianism. At worst it was even more terrifying, remember when we deve

If you ask me, technology was always boring and sucked and was a bland expression of utilitarianism. At worst it was even more terrifying, remember when we developed nuclear bombs? Or even just ordinary bombs and tanks and other murderous technology? The fascination with tech is just the bias of youth, when everything in the world seems new and uncharted and full of possibility. You only enjoyed it because you were on the other side, you were the beneficiary, instead of being the one who has to spend your entire working life slaving away to keep it functioning. And dealing with the outlandish demands from customers and the general public who don't understand or care how it works, they just want the latest solution now and will toss any amount of money at the problem to get it.

ramraj07 5y ago
How in any world were nuclear bombs NOT INTERESTING? Sure they sucked, maybe, even that is arguable. But only a Luddite will say something like ”nuclear bombs are boring”. Tech has always been interesting, and cool, at least since the industrial revolution in modern eras. As Kubrick showed brilliantly in 2001, “technology” is what has always made us different and successful. Brutal, sure, but successful nonetheless.
- throwaway82652 5y ago
  Well, I personally don't consider the technology to murder millions of people to be very interesting. It's more terrifying than it is interesting. The physics behind it? Sure, definitely interesting.
  - ramraj07 5y ago
    Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb is one of the most interesting stories of all history in my opinion. The smartest minds ever to live on this planet decided and agreed it was of the greatest urgency to do what they did and no sane person would argue otherwise. The single greatest night of destruction in Japan during the war was not either of the nukes but the fire bombing of Tokyo. If the Americans didn’t make the nukes, at some point someone else would have. That’s the beauty (and interesting thing) about technology - it’s inevitable. You really can’t pick and choose. You can slow it down sure but never fully stop it. If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” then I will recommend “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes.
    - throwaway82652 5y ago
      >Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. >If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” These comments are incredibly and egregiously pointless, wrong, rude, condescending and dismissive, don't do this. I know about the story and a lot of the history of the war and I still don't find it interesting, sorry. It's just depressing and angering to study, even though it is very necessary to study for a valid historical perspective and even though a lot of it was very inevitable from what the war had already escalated to. That's where you've very badly lost the plot.
      - ramraj07 5y ago
        Again not sure what exactly are you saying is rude. Just because someone’s offended we need to change the meaning of the word “interesting”?
        throwaway82652 5y ago
        Nobody is offended and nobody is trying to change the meaning of anything. You're assuming I know nothing about the topic and that's rude and makes for bad discusson. Don't do that.

ramraj07 5y ago

How in any world were nuclear bombs NOT INTERESTING? Sure they sucked, maybe, even that is arguable. But only a Luddite will say something like ”nuclear bombs are boring”. Tech has always been interesting, and cool, at least since the industrial revolution in modern eras. As Kubrick showed brilliantly in 2001, “technology” is what has always made us different and successful. Brutal, sure, but successful nonetheless.

throwaway82652 5y ago
Well, I personally don't consider the technology to murder millions of people to be very interesting. It's more terrifying than it is interesting. The physics behind it? Sure, definitely interesting.
- ramraj07 5y ago
  Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb is one of the most interesting stories of all history in my opinion. The smartest minds ever to live on this planet decided and agreed it was of the greatest urgency to do what they did and no sane person would argue otherwise. The single greatest night of destruction in Japan during the war was not either of the nukes but the fire bombing of Tokyo. If the Americans didn’t make the nukes, at some point someone else would have. That’s the beauty (and interesting thing) about technology - it’s inevitable. You really can’t pick and choose. You can slow it down sure but never fully stop it. If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” then I will recommend “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes.
  - throwaway82652 5y ago
    >Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. >If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” These comments are incredibly and egregiously pointless, wrong, rude, condescending and dismissive, don't do this. I know about the story and a lot of the history of the war and I still don't find it interesting, sorry. It's just depressing and angering to study, even though it is very necessary to study for a valid historical perspective and even though a lot of it was very inevitable from what the war had already escalated to. That's where you've very badly lost the plot.
    - ramraj07 5y ago
      Again not sure what exactly are you saying is rude. Just because someone’s offended we need to change the meaning of the word “interesting”?
      - throwaway82652 5y ago
        Nobody is offended and nobody is trying to change the meaning of anything. You're assuming I know nothing about the topic and that's rude and makes for bad discusson. Don't do that.