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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

newyorker.com

4 points by mitchbob 2 days ago · 2 comments

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mitchbobOP 2 days ago

> The book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.09-041750/https://www.newyorker.c...

FrankWilhoit 2 days ago

We can have technology, but we have to live up to it. Each new discovery means we have to think more deeply, more quickly, more clearly. If we do not rise to that obligation (which we never have), the technology does us no good; it is only a burden and a misery.

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