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Technology: The Dream is Over

Post author By G
Post date Dec 13, 2025
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The dream is over. Technology, technology companies, and integrated sociopolitical communication systems are not coming to save us. They were never neutral, and they failed at the first serious encounter with technically mediated political extremism. Not accidentally. Voluntarily. They did not merely look away. They amplified, rewarded, and normalised it, all while their balance sheets […]

Tags #wealth, Artificial Intelligence, commercial, control, exploitation, foolish, greed, ignorance, ignorant, internet, politics, power, profit, selfish, stupid, surveillance, technology

Philosophy

Luddite

Post author By G
Post date May 1, 2024
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Luddites, yes, and just as blindness might take many forms, there are so many ways to inhibit the progress of civilisation or work against those creatively seeking collaborative solutions to humanity’s shared existential problems. For some, it becomes a professional if not also political vocation of ignorant bluster and destructive blundering. Analysis is interesting but […]

Tags anachronism, anger, atavism, fear, hate, idiot, ignorant, Luddite, sad, war