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
@MLClark Hmmm ... I don't have the time to listen, but I'd seriously question their premise.
Starting with ... I can listen to their podcast anywhere on Planet Earth (or the ISS, for that matter) thanks to the tech industry. 🤨
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.