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Careful Technology
In a 1998 letter to historian John Lukacs, Kennan offers a reasoned dissent from the dominion of technological progress:
There will now come what I would expect to be a long period of virtual enslavement. . . . The automobile, television . . . drugs, and now the computer culture, have become not the enlargers of life they were originally seen to be,... See more
Wendell Berry • Against killing children
“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
Dr Matt Dowse • What Good Is Innovation if It Doesn’t Work for Everyone?
For several years now, I've been developing a growing discomfort with a philosophy of relating to technology I call Waldenponding (after Thoreau's Walden Pond experiment on which Walden is based). The crude caricature is "smash your smart phone and go live in a log cabin to reclaim your attention and your life from being ha
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding
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Go touch paper: How the Apple Vision Pro turned me from a VR-optimist into a techno-selectivist.
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While emerging technology can woo us with convenience and awe, it risks distracting us from our goals, and devaluing our innately human capacities. Sometimes the way forward is to revert to analog technology. We're entering an age where the
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