I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing a lot. Every time I read one of those articles or see one of those news stories about how X technology is hurting society or whatever, I, as someone who likes using a lot of technology, kind of take it personally. It feels like people are saying “You’re a terrible person for using all this internet stuff and contributing to the decline of civilization.” But it’d probably be better to think “The people who make technology should probably change the way they do things so that people don’t perceive their products as leading to the decline of civilization.” If technology were designed to actually improve the well-being of humanity, there wouldn’t be all those articles and news stories criticizing it and people would feel better about using it.
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