No Technological Promised Land: A Review of Progress and Promise
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People who think that technology should never be regulated, that its owners should be allowed to disrupt as much as they like and do whatever damage they like to people and society in the meantime, love to argue that technological progress inevitably means that everyone will eventually benefit from the progress that technology brings. No matter how much pain you suffer in the short term, you will benefit in the medium to long term. At worst, your children will inevitably be better off than you. So quit your whining and wait for your betters to deliver the technological utopia that is sure to follow their disruption. It is an iron physical law, like gravity, evolution, and me hitting every traffic light between my house and my destination.
No Technological Promised Land: A Review of Progress and Promise
No Technological Promised Land: A Review of…
No Technological Promised Land: A Review of Progress and Promise
People who think that technology should never be regulated, that its owners should be allowed to disrupt as much as they like and do whatever damage they like to people and society in the meantime, love to argue that technological progress inevitably means that everyone will eventually benefit from the progress that technology brings. No matter how much pain you suffer in the short term, you will benefit in the medium to long term. At worst, your children will inevitably be better off than you. So quit your whining and wait for your betters to deliver the technological utopia that is sure to follow their disruption. It is an iron physical law, like gravity, evolution, and me hitting every traffic light between my house and my destination.