- 29 Apr 2013 09:50
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Technology isn't tyranny for the same reason that the gun is not violence, tyranny and violence exists in the human heart not the in tools in human hands. Technology is practically by definition an enabler of human aspiration and thus it can enable good things as well as bad depending on the aspirations of the human. If we are talking about freedom then this simple chain of cause and effect should be born in mind...
Freedom comes from power and power comes from knowledge and knowledge is technology. The best chance for freedom comes from embracing technology not from rejecting it. I think what you find oppressive about technology is only that you don't understand it, which is to say you are oppressed by your ignorance of technology not technology in itself. In my amateurish way I am techno-capable and thus I am half-way the master of technology not its servant. The solution for you should be remedy your ignorance through learning.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!
Wolke wrote:If you are opposed to political and economic tyranny, why not be opposed to the more effective and all-encompassing slavery of modern technics? Our society has simply thrown off the rather inefficient totalitarianism of absolute governments, and replaced it with the perfected totalitarianism of technology. If you are against the old tyranny, but a friend to the new one, you are an enemy to human freedom. The technological system eliminates human freedom and personality, runs on its own law indepepedent of the historical process, and takes control over the earth and of mankind itself.
Technology isn't tyranny for the same reason that the gun is not violence, tyranny and violence exists in the human heart not the in tools in human hands. Technology is practically by definition an enabler of human aspiration and thus it can enable good things as well as bad depending on the aspirations of the human. If we are talking about freedom then this simple chain of cause and effect should be born in mind...
Freedom comes from power and power comes from knowledge and knowledge is technology. The best chance for freedom comes from embracing technology not from rejecting it. I think what you find oppressive about technology is only that you don't understand it, which is to say you are oppressed by your ignorance of technology not technology in itself. In my amateurish way I am techno-capable and thus I am half-way the master of technology not its servant. The solution for you should be remedy your ignorance through learning.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!