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Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech? There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles th
by infoseek12 3y ago
Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech?
There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame because they used to be an excellent publication.
- cr__ 3y agoPeople are generally more cognizant of the harms caused by the tech industry than they were even a few years ago.
- thejazzman 3y agoThis. The academic internet of the 90s is so far gone and while we're seeing a lot of magic lately, it's magic available to literally everybody for any and every purpose. We're rapidly seeing how boring and disappointing that is :(
- LikelyABurner 3y agoYou can find a plethora of critical viewpoints on Hacker News and the various blogs it links to which are well cognizant of the dangers of the tech industry. The problem isn’t that Wired is critical, it’s that they’ve gone weirdly reactionary and their writing has gone so mass market dumbed down that Some Random Guy’s Blog is likely to have a better written and researched viewpoint.
- lazide 3y agoThey probably laid off almost everyone but some burnt out interns.
- robinsonb5 3y agoPlot twist: maybe the article was written by ChatGPT!
- lazide 3y agoBetter than 50/50 odds I’m guessing
- illwrks 3y agoPutting journalists out of work I guess?
- phil917 3y agoI saw a comment describing this increasing luddite response to new tech developments and it resonated with me. Essentially, the comment made the point that tech is advancing so fast these days that most people are unable to keep up with the pace of these radical changes. And the natural reaction to that for many is to reject these "advancements" or at least look upon them with cynicism and skepticism.
- 15457345234 3y agoI don't think it's anything to do with the pace of advancement, it's more that many many of these 'advancements' look very obviously harmful, not 'potentially' harmful but actively and immediately harmful in the manner of a car with brakes that only work 90% of the time.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoYou don't think it has anything to do with the fact that 'advancements' these days come with mandatory accounts/subscriptions, egregious data harvesting, and user-hostility to keep people in line with what companies want rather than what people want?
- Planktonne 3y agoBeing antitech is a valid stance.