> Would you prefer we heat our homes by burning wood, carry water from the nearby spring, and ride horses to visit relatives?
I'm more surprised that seemingly educated people have such simplistic views as "technology = progress, progress = good hence technology = good". Vaccines and running water are tech, megacorps owned "AI" being weaponised by surveillance obsessed governments is also tech.
If you don't push back on "tech" you're just blindingly accepting whatever someone else decided for you. Keep in mind the benefits of tech since the 80s have mostly been pocketed by the top 10%, the pleb still work as much, retire as old, &c. despite what politicians and technophiles have been saying
Tech enabled the horrors of WWI and II, tech directly enabled the Holocast -- IBM built special computers to help the Nazi's more effectively round up the Jews.
Tech also gave us vaccines and indoor plumbing and the clothes I am wearing.
It's the morals and courage to live by those morals which creates good. Progress is by definition towards a goal. If that goal is say
> to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
and ensure our basic inherent (not government-given) rights to
> life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
then all good.
If it is to enrich me at the cost of thee, create a surveillance state that rounds up and kills undesirables at scale, destroys our basic inherent rights, then tech not good
I'm more surprised that seemingly educated people have such simplistic views as "technology = progress, progress = good hence technology = good". Vaccines and running water are tech, megacorps owned "AI" being weaponised by surveillance obsessed governments is also tech.
If you don't push back on "tech" you're just blindingly accepting whatever someone else decided for you. Keep in mind the benefits of tech since the 80s have mostly been pocketed by the top 10%, the pleb still work as much, retire as old, &c. despite what politicians and technophiles have been saying