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> and push our society together in a meaningful way. This seems like magical thinking.

• piva00 2y ago
  More than that, it's religious thinking. David F. Noble's "The Religion of Technology" is a good read to understand how this whole tenet of "salvation by technology" has been a thing for a very long time...
  • Jgoure 2y ago
    This is insightful. Thank you for sharing it.
  • PaulHoule 2y ago
    It's hard to understate what a miracle it is. Kings could afford to eat meat more than once a day but couldn't get (say) blood pressure medication or antibiotics. Most of us are a few generations from subsistence agriculture, but ecology tells us that if we don't solve all the problems in front of us [1] we are a few generations from a much smaller population that does subsistence agriculture at best. [1] Ashby's law is the only law: https://medium.com/workmatters/complexity-ashbys-law-simplification-and-adaptation-7a8350ad34c2 https://medium.com/workmatters/complexity-ashbys-law-simplif...