Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology
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Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology
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#2It's a personal essay about how not all—probably most—technology is destined to liberate us.
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#3> In What Technology Wants, he argued that technology evolves like a living system.
Such an interesting take
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#4It's a personal essay about how not all—probably most—technology is destined to liberate us.
Well, when all is said in done, people like to own things and other people. The form will differ, sure, but the concept stays.
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#5It's a personal essay about how not all—probably most—technology is destined to liberate us.
Well, when all is said in done, people like to own things and other people. The form will differ, sure, but the concept stays.
How do you explain the saying 'sharing is caring'? If you're correct and people inherently enjoy the exploitation of others, how could such a saying spontaneously develop and resonate with rather large groups?
And how did the feasts of large religions develop? Things like iftar, where you communally share lots of food with both people you know and strangers, including the impoverished and disadvantaged? There ought to be quite a bit of violence involved to make such practices palatable if you're correct about this.
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#6If, like me, you read comments before links, this refers to Umberto Eco, not low water usage cycles on washing machines
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#7I disagree with his take on traffic jams though. Public transportation, bikes, and well designed cities really do solve traffic
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, when all is said in done, people like to own things and other people. The form will differ, sure, but the concept stays.
How do you explain the saying 'sharing is caring'? If you're correct and people inherently enjoy the exploitation of others, how could such a saying spontaneously develop and resonate with rather large groups? And how did the feasts of large religions develop? Things like iftar, where you communally share lots of food with both people you know and strangers, including the impoverished and disadvantaged? There ought t…
Because that saying originated as a US bourgeois thing, people willing to liberate themselves from really caring for the other (much poorer) people living just besides them in exchange for writing some code. Just look at the streets of San Francisco, for example, not much sharing there.
And before someone mentioning that people like Torvalds and such other open-source luminaries are not technically Americans, they’re Americans in spirit, and by this point they’ve already got either US citizenship or a US green card, not to mention the hefty comps coming via US tech colossuses (either directly or indirectly).
As the original article mentions, the secret to all this tech non-sense is to log out and experience life, while always remembering that Uncle Ted was right.
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#9It's a personal essay about how not all—probably most—technology is destined to liberate us.
Well, when all is said in done, people like to own things and other people. The form will differ, sure, but the concept stays.
I wouldn't say we "like" to do it, but in a certain sense it's an existential necessity to do so.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, when all is said in done, people like to own things and other people. The form will differ, sure, but the concept stays.
How do you explain the saying 'sharing is caring'? If you're correct and people inherently enjoy the exploitation of others, how could such a saying spontaneously develop and resonate with rather large groups? And how did the feasts of large religions develop? Things like iftar, where you communally share lots of food with both people you know and strangers, including the impoverished and disadvantaged? There ought t…
There is a great book called The Dawn of Everything (Graeber and Wengrow) that talks about how cultures like that existed, and we (the Western civilization) decimated them.