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> the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters I think that's just a coincidence and not really the cause. You can find luddites nowadays o
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
> the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters
I think that's just a coincidence and not really the cause. You can find luddites nowadays on hn who understand technology.
> if you’re a concert pianist, it doesn’t mean that you have any special knowledge about how to cause social change.
Haha such as Victor Borge, Tom Lehrer, and more.
What about actors like Schwarzenegger and Regan?
Recovering Alcoholics try to change the people around them too. Sometimes even if the people around them don't have the same problems.
The humans are the problem and not the subset of human techies.
I admire the Toyama for blowing the whistle, but I think he's nearly as blind as he was before realizing all this.
- niccaluim 11y agoI believe this criticism is answered here: "Of course, such thinking, endorsed by no one beyond the world of technology, would be of limited force. But the technologist worldview has become widely influential." No one's listening to recovering alcoholics outside of AA and maybe their families. Schwarzenegger, Reagan, Borge, Lehrer—these are all individuals, influential in their own way, but not commanding entire social movements with uncritical followings. (Well, maybe Reagan did/does.)
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoI suppose we are both technologists. Did you think that giving poor kids in India an ipad would solve some of their problems? I didn't think that, and I still don't. You can find credulous dopes that do, but this implicates dopes and not technologists or does it?