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I have a serious question: is there any good collection or list of people who have rejected technologies when introduced? I'm not talking about entire societie
by ddtaylor 2y ago
I have a serious question: is there any good collection or list of people who have rejected technologies when introduced?
I'm not talking about entire societies of people like the Amish.
I'm talking about people who otherwise use technology, but then do something like this publicly etc.
I want to know if time even remembers these people beyond that one tid bit. I am curious if they went on to do anything else or what technologies "caused" them to defect.
- zahlman 2y ago>is there any good collection or list of people who have rejected technologies when introduced? Sounds hard to curate. Do you have a specific threshold of notoriety in mind? There could be tons of average people doing this and no good way to find out about it.
- archagon 2y agoI mean, Stallman, if you count software commercialization as technology. There are plenty of game developers who reject game engines in lieu of building their own from varying levels of scratch. Jonathan Blow, for example, made a number of successful and artistically meaningful games that heavily leveraged his custom tech stack.