> I have one question: for what cause? Someone else asked that question in this same thread [0]. It's a good question. The purposelessness of much technology

> I have one question: for what cause? Someone else asked that question in this same thread [0]. It's a good question. The purposelessness of much technology is a problem Neil Postman addressed very robustly in "Technopoly" [1]. To date I have not heard any sane responses to his "Six Questions Regarding Technology" [2]. > not because of bad actors, but because of the 'pretending to be good' ones. When you don't have any reason at all for doing something, and you're challenged, one tends to use imagination to dream up a plausible "good" reason. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37656891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37656891 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly [2] https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/95930 https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/95930