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Same as It Ever Was: Why the Techno Optimists Are Wrong
- anigbrowl 11y agoMartin Wolf is always worth reading. Nice to se a longer form article than his usual columns in the FT, which always leave me wanting more.
- Dowwie 11y agoThanks for sharing. In this issue, Foreign Affairs presents a more balanced, constructive editorial on the changes in society presented by technology. There is more of this theme in other media, such the Intelligence Squared debate (UK version), "The Internet is a Failed Dystopia", that was this week Further, in a TNR article from July 2014, Paul Starr wrote about Brynjolfsson and McAfee's recent work, of which they highlighted in the new Current Affairs: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118327/second-machine-age-reviewed-paul-starr http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118327/second-machine-age...
- michas 11y agoThis article reminded me a quote by the commissioner of the United States Patent Office in 19th century. He said: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." and then quit his job :)
- tim333 11y agoHe seems a bit downbeat on the whole thing speaking as a bit of a techno optimist myself. Viewing Earth's history from a long perspective the main events would likely be big bang, planet forms, biological life evolves and then 13.8bn years after the big bang technology becomes smart and evolves. We're on the verge of the latter. It's unlikely to be the same as it ever was. I've never been keen on out minds being fastened to a dying animal, as Yeats put it. Roll on the singularity.