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The current backlash that "tech is bad" or that "the future sucks" feels odd - like an attack on a method for change - capable of working.
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I mainly interpret that to be 'tech culture is bad' as in not inclusive, favoring info asymmetry etc. All things we can & should address
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Where I see a sign that says "The Future Sucked" I do not see a critique of tech culture
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I don't see a critique of tech per se, either. More a societal commentary than anything else.
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As in a future where basic things like health, ed, housing etc are prohibitively expensive for many doesn't sound all that great either.
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It's traditional during periods of highest change
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Tech allows centralisation of power and wealth, and erosion of privacy. I see no imminent reversal to this trend.
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Some tech like radio and TV lends itself to centralization, whereas other tech like the printing press and personal computing decentralizes.
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There are ome centralizing movements within the larger decentralizing wave of personal computing but on the whole they won't prevail I think
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I think that so long as capitalism has a vice-hold on consumer tech it will get worse before it gets better unfortunately.
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Maybe happens when gap between talk of building bright futures & reality of monetisation & corporate priorities becomes too hard to ignore
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When I hear people say "tech is bad," I hear a cultural critique, not a comment on technology.
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