I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone.

Also, I’m a Luddite. That’s not the contradiction that it might sound like. The original Luddites did not hate technology. Most were skilled machine operators. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, what they objected to were the specific ways that tech was being used to undermine their status, upend their communities and destroy their livelihoods. So they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them.

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    All new technologies can help us living a better life, it doesn’t make sense using them to build a worst society

    It does if all you care about is short-term profit. Gotta make them stockholders happy before they bail.