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Using a flip phone, not watching television, reading paper documents, or taking photos in 35mm is not anti-technology, it's using old technology. It's quite po
by oconnore 14y ago
Using a flip phone, not watching television, reading paper documents, or taking photos in 35mm is not anti-technology, it's using old technology.
It's quite possible that smart phones, televisions, and kindles don't make your life any better. But MRI machines, efficient vehicles, green energy, plastic money, RFID toll booths, the GPS satellite constellation, and the internet probably do. Being anti technology means that you resist things that would improve your life for no other reason than that they are new. It's fine to use old things, as long as you keep an open mind.
- blhack 14y agoOh for crying out loud. Language is technology, clothing is technology, vegetables are technology, houses are technology. The author is talking about people usurping modernity, not stretching the definition of technology to the point of absurdity.
- lutusp 14y ago> Language is technology, clothing is technology, vegetables are technology, houses are technology. That argument can be made, but not convincingly. Instead, why not define "technology" as something man-made that most people find incomprehensible?
- oconnore 14y agoHow is using the word technology to describe the GPS network and smart phones absurd? You are the only one here talking about vegetables. Modernity is not Facebook. Facebook is pop culture, and we're already aware of the anti-pop-culture movement: they're called hipsters.
- delwin 14y agoHipsters are SO into Facebook. And even _more_ into Instagram. They define pop culture by positioning themselves against a "phantom" pop culture that is even more pop.