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Almost every technology gets assigned its own existential crisis. I’m not sure what that’s about. (I trace it all back to Jurassic park. It trained an entire g
by bilsbie 3y ago
Almost every technology gets assigned its own existential crisis. I’m not sure what that’s about.
(I trace it all back to Jurassic park. It trained an entire generation to be afraid of technology.)
- palata 3y ago> It trained an entire generation to be afraid of technology. Apparently not enough, given where we're headed.
- thfuran 3y agoIt's still weird to me how quickly and completely discourse around privacy on the internet shifted from "who are these scary anonymous internet people in chat rooms and why you shouldn't tell them anything" to "routinely publicly post just about everything about your life"
- geerlingguy 3y agoI grew up watching Jurassic Park, and the main takeaway was technology is amazing, but many people will abuse it to get what they want without any regard for potential devastating consequences, often ignoring any logical argument against it if they've already found a path towards profitability.
- lupusreal 3y agoI think the book is better, it stresses the gap between innovation (particularly driven by startup capitalism) and government regulation. Per the book, when scientists are driven by a profit motive they have an incentive to be secretive to keep their competitors in the dark, and naturally, also keep government regulators in the dark. This mirrors a common observation on HN, that American tech startups profit by finding ways around traditional regulation (Amazon getting around local sales tax, Uber getting around taxi medallion systems, electric scooter rental deploying into cities faster than their sidewalk clutter can be regulated, etc.)
- thfuran 3y agoYou must be thinking of Terminator.