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(Good video - I put it at [[Jeremy Rifkin on Human Nature]] | |||
Latest revision as of 05:29, 17 March 2025
TLDR; The myth of technology is that advanced technology has not brought a higher quality of life.
Ie, the benefits are much skewed to certain individuals.
The myth of technology refers to a technological and social system which is marked by the failure of advanced technology to both reduce working hours required of people to live, and to distribute wealth equitably among its many members.
The promise of technology is to deliver the opposite - in other words appropriate technology (in the broad sense) that leaves nobody behind and introduces the possibility of genuine human progress.
However, we've been rigged to believe quite a dark perspective on human nature:
(Good video - I put it at Jeremy Rifkin on Human Nature