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My favourite kind of tech hater, which I am one of, is the "Your application of technology creates more problems than it solves" hater. This type of hater rail
by Crito 13y ago
My favourite kind of tech hater, which I am one of, is the "Your application of technology creates more problems than it solves" hater.
This type of hater rails against new technologies that have no realized advantage over old analog/interpersonal systems besides appearing more high-tech (and thus making the user appear to be 'in tune' with the times).
Ever seen a AV presentation room decked out with the state of the art of 2004-5? Shit like ceiling lights, projector screens and projectors, and sound systems that can only be controlled from a piece of shit pre-iPad tablet PC that takes 5 minutes to get turned on and another 5 minutes to work... when simple mechanical switches on the wall near the door would have worked just fine.
This sort of tech is characterized by taking a system or process that worked perfectly fine and reliably without a computer/software, and adding unreliable computers and software that don't actually give you any new useful capabilities.
The "IntelliLink" South Park episode does a great job of representing and mocking the sort of tech that I am talking about.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoOh dear, that's me. Top of my shit list is tech which doesn't just creates more problems, it creates extremely damaging problems by replacing stuff that is mistaken for "old fashioned". Voting machines that undermine the accountability and transparency of democratic elections, public transport chip cards that violate privacy in a way the Stasi could only dream of, that sort of thing.