What people describe as "tech addiction" is I think better described as "consumer product addiction". Technology has created an unprecedented opportunity for u

What people describe as "tech addiction" is I think better described as "consumer product addiction". Technology has created an unprecedented opportunity for us to turn the world into a human friendly imaginative playground. That opportunity is squandered by people who think in the short term about control and money and status and grievance. Call me what you will, but I have a hard time watching old videos like this and not getting emotional -> https://youtu.be/Uz__bJTlOjk?t=37 https://youtu.be/Uz__bJTlOjk?t=37 Great engineers using the most advanced technology of the day to make childhood fantasies a reality is one of the most beautiful uses of our time on Earth I can think of. Tech could make the world the ultimate fantasy adventure. We have so much capacity to alleviate material want and create amazing dreamworlds and make people happy, but laziness, greed, ego, jealousy, and resentment all get in the way. Technological complexity obfuscates and entrenches a lot of existing problems and creates lots of room for abuse, but at root most modern problems are not fundamentally tech related. They're rooted in our difficulties cooperating with each other.