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It was not difficult to eye the hard, cold material takeover as evil, even if a necessary evil. When technology appeared among our age-old routines, it was set outside ourselves and treated like an infection. People embraced its products, but guiltily.

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

A new story drawing on a patchwork of older stories.

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

Automation bias means that technology doesn’t even have to malfunction for it to be a threat to our lives – and GPS is again a familiar culprit. In their attempt to reach an island in Australia, a group of Japanese tourists drove their car down onto a beach and directly into the sea because their satellite navigation system assured them there was a viable road.

New Dark Age

James Bridle

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