Towards a twenty-first-century Luddism: my case for why decomputerization should be a core demand of the climate movementhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data …
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Yes! We should liberate our heads from all the linguistic noise that is offered to us by Big Tech companies with the idea of making us feel helpless and outdated without their products. "Progress" is just a soundbite to sell us things (and surveil us at the same time).
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Mike, you’re right that the alarmists here are, at best, missing some forests. Folks at the
@HumaneTech_ are more on point: tweaks to some incentive structures are good. -
Tweaks to incentive structures are economic not technological. We can incentivize good behavior—do not pollute lest you incur a tax; do build hardware with renewable materials—& punish bad behavior. But we 100% need technological progress & it isn’t happening fast enough.
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If we log off Twitter how can we be sure people like you aren't still logged on?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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In fact, Mike, since you brought it up: A lot of money and effort has been invested into moving human activity online en masse. I could log off Twitter, sure. But I'd need to be independently wealthy to afford going totally offline, and even wealthier to afford privacy, so...
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