"I'm sure Cory would have given a talk in 1970 on "The Coming War on General Purpose Hardware" where he bemoans the rise of the integrated circuit" Well, Erich

"I'm sure Cory would have given a talk in 1970 on "The Coming War on General Purpose Hardware" where he bemoans the rise of the integrated circuit" Well, Erich Fromm criticized the death of rationality and the rise of the purely manipulative and blind intelligence a decade before that. Bleh to integrated circuitry: we're so far away from ourselves that even we became a black box, accepting a neverending, meaningless stream of impressions which we compare with other impressions, but not ever understand. So yeah. That this now takes on physical manifestations isn't exactly surprising if you've paid attention. IMHO they're both right, and "they're criticizing something I assume to be beyond criticism", isn't an argument. Neither is "this could have been extrapolated before". "he's just grabbing headlines with this nonsense." Ahhh, sweet complacency, and the peaceful dreams of those who don't.