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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
The ambient and all-pervasive hunger for ever-more-fleeting relevance; the disposability with which we treat people who mess up; the trivialization of words and displacements of responsibility, and much else. In the end, looking at her helped me see myself more clearly, but it also, oddly, helped me better see the dangerous systems and dynamics we are all trapped inside.
C. S. Lewis wrote in 1948 when global nuclear annihilation seemed like a real possibility: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things … not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.”
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
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