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Oh wow, the Lamp on HN? And Peter Hitchens no less. I don't even know how I found myself reading this the other day, but my take away then was it felt like ramb
by secstate 3y ago
Oh wow, the Lamp on HN? And Peter Hitchens no less. I don't even know how I found myself reading this the other day, but my take away then was it felt like ramblings of an old man wishing the world had technologized "better." Though because Hitchens is a pretty skilled writer, the better part is subtle and it mostly ends up couched as "different". But all in all I was left unimpressed.
Though I did learn about slip coaches, which sounded neat, though pretty clearly fundamentally flawed.
- _dain_ 3y ago>ramblings of an old man wishing the world had technologized "better." it will happen to all of us someday
- 082349872349872 3y agoTechnologising is the path to the dark side. Technologising leads to new features. New features lead to bugs. Bugs lead to suffering. Unless we escape the cycle (by understanding the impermanence of each incarnation of technological progress) we all suffer eternal recurrence of disappointment in a physical world which could logically have technologised better...