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I’m so sick of the Cult of Tech that keeps trying to solve energy problems with tech, money problems with tech, human fear problems with tech. TECH isn’t the solution. Tech is nice, but it doesn’t solve the class of problems we have created for ourselves with industry.

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Amy Webb

@amywebb

Oct 23, 2021

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4:02 PM · Oct 23, 2021

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So what are your thoughts on transhumanism?

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I don’t even know what that is.

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👏👏👏

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Amen!

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Tech is only as good as the people using it.

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Or I guess I should say, tech is only as good *or as bad* as the people using it.

lynn boyden (she / her)

@lrb23

Oct 23, 2021

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I saw this just this morning, so yeah, hard agree.

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Chelsea Troy @heychelseatroy@social.clawhammer.net

@HeyChelseaTroy

Oct 22, 2021

I have, four times now, witnessed a group of software and machine learning whizzes gather in a room (or Zoom) to brainstorm the reinvention of transport for eco-friendliness and human convenience. All four times, the brainstorm "invented" buses. To the letter. All four times.

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Nerds who couldn't tell a hammer from a shovel

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Is synthetic biology the metaverse? We can save the world by plugging into the matrix?

Maciek Gorywoda

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Tech is the only solution. At this point we can solve the problems only by running forward even faster - to better nuclear plants, capture CO2 solutions, artificial meat, etc. Science proves again and again that it solves problems.