This week's It Could Happen Here is reruns, but the first is a great essay I enjoyed the first time through. Its thesis? The tech industry has been an unmitigated failure for overall human thriving, expressly because the direction taken by technologists hasn't been in service to the best possible improvements to human life.
It's a provocative thesis, worth sitting with even if you quibble. It's not Tech Bad! It's Tech Without Ethical Vision Bad.
How do we dream better?
https://pca.st/episode/991cd39f-9a4f-4f02-b8fd-4b0e8198b416
That said, I hear you on not having time for podcasts. :) There are plenty of articles and books on how Silicon Valley-esque tech-industry ideologies have stunted innovation, killed created value from within, and closed off fuller application of the brilliant inventions we *have* dreamed up along the way.
Will @ you the next time I come across such a piece! 😘
@MLClark Just read about some of the local union leaders blowing up rivals and targets with dynamite in the 1970s. Yikes. They didn't kill anyone, but they did blow up rival union halls, trailers, cars, etc.
Maybe I need to write nice things about them. 😳
We have a capitalist society that discourages communal benefit without paying for it.
I've benefitted from modern medicine because I have insurance. Those without, do not.
@WordsmithFL
Again, it's not "tech bad" - and GPS comes up as one of a few positive inventions. It's an evaluation of the overall impact of tech as an industry on human thriving, drawing on data illustrating how we went down a less than ideal path for the application of innovation to the core problems for human wellbeing. The person writing it came up as a tech-industry journalist himself.